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Which console will have the most million sellers this year?

Xbox 360 89 49.44%
 
Playstation 3 57 31.67%
 
Nintendo Wii 28 15.56%
 
Tie 6 3.33%
 
Total:180
themanwithnoname on 19 September 2010
Seece said:
RolStoppable said:

Easy choice: Xbox 360.

The table is helpful indeed. The 360 won the past two years, it's in the lead this year and the upcoming release schedule plays in its favor. For the most part I don't even know which games are still coming this year, but that doesn't matter. The Wii won't get a lot of million seller material with the third party support it has, so it's out of the question. The 360 and PS3 get mostly the same games, because pretty much everything is multiplatform nowadays. So in the end the 360 will retain the lead.


If memory serves me right, Source doesn't agree!


You expect Source to give the 360 credit for anything? One look at his holiday projections tells you all you need to know.



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irtz on 19 September 2010

360



c0rd on 19 September 2010

1 million seems to be the sweet spot for the 360 in this kind of game, so it's an easy choice.

If you shifted the number a bit higher, say 2 or 3 million, I'm assuming the Wii would dominate. Not sure about the PS3



yo_john117 on 19 September 2010

360 is the most obvious choice imo.



Carl on 19 September 2010

Judging from the table, and what's been posted in this thread...

I would say 360 wins it, followed by PS3 and finally the Wii.



                            

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Seece on 19 September 2010
c0rd said:

1 million seems to be the sweet spot for the 360 in this kind of game, so it's an easy choice.

If you shifted the number a bit higher, say 2 or 3 million, I'm assuming the Wii would dominate. Not sure about the PS3
Console/Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010*
           
X360 1 4 10 8 4
PS3 0
 1 5 6 4
Wii 1 7 14 9 7

This is 2 million, I imagine it goes more in Wii's favour as the numbers rise.

In total Wii has 23 games sell over 2 million units, X360 has 47, over double! Wii has 31 game sell over 3 million units and X360 has 19. PS3 has 16 over 3 million and 27 above 2 million. So PS3 and 360 both have more games sell over 2 million units than Wii, I guess this just highlights the bad 3rd party support and Wii ever green titles theory even more ...



 

c0rd on 19 September 2010
Seece said:
c0rd said:

1 million seems to be the sweet spot for the 360 in this kind of game, so it's an easy choice.

If you shifted the number a bit higher, say 2 or 3 million, I'm assuming the Wii would dominate. Not sure about the PS3
Console/Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010*
           
X360 1 4 10 8 4
PS3 0
 1 5 6 4
Wii 1 7 14 9 7

This is 2 million, I imagine it goes more in Wii's favour as the numbers rise.

In total Wii has 23 games sell over 2 million units, X360 has 47, over double! Wii has 31 game sell over 3 million units and X360 has 19. PS3 has 16 over 3 million and 27 above 2 million. So PS3 and 360 both have more games sell over 2 million units than Wii, I guess this just highlights the bad 3rd party support and Wii ever green titles theory even more ...

Oh, thanks for the table (and nice thread btw)

Yeah, the Wii is obviously very top heavy. 3rd parties are important for their wealth of big budget games that sell medium amounts, unfortunately for Nintendo they haven't been on board since the rise of the PS1. Means Nintendo has to drive all the hardware on their own, so the little software they do release needs to sell tons, if they're to become (or now after the Wii, remain) the market leader.



Seece on 22 October 2010

Updated!



 

AlkamistStar on 22 October 2010

Great thread Seece! I'll be keeping an eye on this one. My vote is for Xbox 360, not only for a larger install base, but because it's consumer base buys games more often than the competition. Multiplatform games are the name of the game this year, and they generally sell better on Xbox 360.



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Seece on 22 October 2010
AlkamistStar said:

Great thread Seece! I'll be keeping an eye on this one. My vote is for Xbox 360, not only for a larger install base, but because it's consumer base buys games more often than the competition. Multiplatform games are the name of the game this year, and they generally sell better on Xbox 360.

Ta very much!

Going forward, over the next 4 weeks X360 has Fable III, Fallout NV, MOH. PS3 has GOW Collection, Fallout and MOH, and Wii has nothing.