The problem here is that, you say those games were good like that is a fact, according to who you?? Conduit was meh, thats why its stuck at 520,000 thousand after all this time. Its not Wii audiences, otherwise GE wouldnt have done that well. NMH was overhyped garbage IMHO. Id be willing to bet alot of people taught so, which is why the sequel bombed so hard. IMHO

Carl2291 said: This thread is funny, lots of bullshit being thrown around. I'd like to add that Castle Crashers is far, far away from platforming land. Its like a modern day Golden Axe and it's brilliant

It doesn't matter what you think it is.

While we're stretching game genre definitions......

Wii Play (shooting range) is the highest selling FPS this gen and the Galaxy games are the highest selling third person shooters.

Is there any genre Nintendo haven't completely dominated this gen?

Wii has the ultimate fighter SSBB which 10m+ seller, best selling fighter ever on a console, far above any fighter on Ps3/Xbox360 where the best selling is Tekken 6 Ps3 with 2.4 million, Wii has Dragonball, Castlevania, Naruto, Mortal Combat and some others, but who cares about those since you can play the ultimate fighter on Wii? not to talk about racers, it's even more humiliating

i don't say varation in games, since Ps3/Xbox360 have more big games, talking about where the big games are found among genres....

NMH has 8.5 on gamestats, wouldn't call that garbage, so does NMH2, about 0.5 higher than the big selling Prototype for example, just telling

Since some people were asking for it:

I used the VGC numbers as of right now. All games in the VGC database (with their assigned genre) above 10k sales are included.

Have fun arguing which library is more varied! :D

now, THAT is a post

Wii has the ''most games'' in 7 genres, Xbox360 in 4, and Ps3 in 1

apart from Shooter and RPG's Wii is close on the rest genres it's losing

sales wise, it's common sense which genres are selling the most on which platforms

as expected, Xbox360 diversity increased with Kinect, beyond Ps3,  and that's why it's getting close to Wii in 2011/2012, more focus on other genres than shooters

variation is diversity, thats what this thread was trying to prove, sales dont mean anything in that regard. I play Tekken 6 way more than SSBB. Again what does that have to do with diversity??  There are MORE fighting games released on the HDs than Wii, fact. It doesnt matter how much SSBB sold because its still ONE game.

I would call NMH garbage because I played it and thats what I thought it was garbage.  I dont care what anyone else says, they liked it. Good for them.  Why did MNH2 not sell better or at least as well as NMHs?? The only thing would be that the buyers of the original game didnt think it was that good to begin with

the difference is like 8 titles, in the fighting genre 44 for Wii, 52 for X360, 46 for Ps3 , a relatively small difference, Namco VS Capcom, Tekken, SoulCalibur, Street Fighter are all huge titles the Wii lost in the fighter genre

on the other hand SSBB is 4x the sales of Tekken 6 on Ps3, that's not a small difference, no fighter has ever been so huge on a home console before so it kind of covers up the empty space

it's all about taste

where are you getting your numbers from?? According to gamepot there are 31 fighting games( http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=1031&category=Fighting+Games&mode=all&sort=views&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&official=all ). PS3 I counted 49 from the same site, thats a big discrepancy, they werent even counting the DL games.

your second paragraph makes no sense at all. Not in the context of variety. SO because ONE game sold that much it some how accounts for getting essentially crap since 2007? Empty space? Try explain that to a Wii only owner who is a big fan of fighting games and tell him its okay. SSBB sold 10 mil so that makes up for him not being able to play Mvs.C2&3, SF3online, KOF12&13, TXSF, Tekken6, VF5, SF4, SSF4, newMK, MKvsDC, BlazBlue, etc. You see what Im saying about diversity??

its about taste, you're right. I found the game to be boring, it was like a hack and slash FF13. Run down corridors, beat up bland enemies do the same thing to a boss and occasionally shake your MOVE/Wiimote in a jerk off motion, no thanks ill go back to GOW, hell Id rather deal with Castlevania

He got his numbers from this post.

1) variation is diversity, thats what this thread was trying to prove, sales dont mean anything in that regard. I play Tekken 6 way more than SSBB. Again what does that have to do with diversity??  There are MORE fighting games released on the HDs than Wii, fact. It doesnt matter how much SSBB sold because its still ONE game.

2)I would call NMH garbage because I played it and thats what I thought it was garbage.  I dont care what anyone else says, they liked it. Good for them.  Why did MNH2 not sell better or at least as well as NMHs?? The only thing would be that the buyers of the original game didnt think it was that good to begin with

1)  Sort of - i posted the data to show that the games that had sold in huge numbers on the Wii did not demonstrate (as claimed by someone elsewhere) that Wii users had the least diverse game tastes.  Comparing the games that has sold in huge numbers across the 3 home platforms was, I felt, a legitimate way of addressing/rebuffing the claim.

2) That's an interesting question - I bought NMH and really enjoyed it, but never got around to getting the sequel.  I think that's because, while I enjoyed it, I didn't feel inclined to repeat the experience so soon after the original.  Now I would by no means regard myself as representative of the typical Wii gamer, but my tendency (which is not absolute by any means, but a tendency nonetheless) to avoid repeating game experiences within a short space of time may be shared by others, and may in some way account for the disappointing performance of many sequels on the Wii (relative to the originals).  I'm often amazed at how a new CoD outperforms its predecessor and leads to hardware spikes (who was drawn to an HD machine by CoD:MW3, but not MWs 1 and 2?) - we've seen with games like SMG2, Zelda:SS and various others that being a Wii sequel to a critically acclaimed and big-selling predecessor does not make outperforming that predecessor particularly likely (unlike on the HD systems).  I don't say this to imply that Wii owners' tastes are more diverse, I just offer it as an observation in response to your point about NMH.