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Wii ended first place three times, not two. (Racing, Platformer, Misc)

Percentages of Exclusive/Non exclusive games are wrong for the Wii as well, should be 66.59% and 33.41%.

And yeah, Minecraft is not a platformer.



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JayWood2010 said:
Xxain said:
Yea, Mario platformers should be counted as a whole. Sub genres like Kart, sport and paper are seperate. Paper Mario is not a platformer and neither is Minecraft. Also as someone said, skip digital cuz we dont have numbers for everybody.


I used the numbers that was available to me and I see no reason to ignore digital as long as we know the numbers.  However I must not have paid attention when I put Minecraft on platformers.  I assume it is Action/ Adventure.

I will make a fix but it will be a while since I have to change a lot of things in the graph when i make a change.

Mario Galaxy and New Super mario Bros are seperate series and will be treated as so.


By you being pigheaded you are only devalue your thread. 2D vs 3D mario is only for game design purposes only. In an actual investers meeting where discussion of sales of platformer Mario's they would treated as one not seperated. Wii's platformer data is not accurate. Digital we rarely ever here about actually sales and more about thresholds past. Its just better to exclude them considering something we cant really have a valid estimate. For example Sonic Adventure 2 spent 6 month in PSN & XBL top 10( actually still think it is PSN). Im sure it outsold Limbo. The more accurate the better.



Joaco <3 N64 said:
Wii ended first place three times, not two. (Racing, Platformer, Misc)

Percentages of Exclusive/Non exclusive games are wrong for the Wii as well, should be 66.59% and 33.41%.

And yeah, Minecraft is not a platformer.


I noticed the exclusive.  I messed up on all 3.  Fixed that.  i will now fix the racer one as well




       

KylieDog said:
You've lumped games into odd catagories. Borderlands is mainly an RPG, a rail shooter is not an FPS, no Tomb Raider in platforming (Underworld and Trilogy at least, not really the new one), Monster Hunter is a hunting game, not JRPG, speaking of RPGs why break down into WRPG and JRPG and not MMORPG, SRPG etc etc.

Missing entire genres too. Where are sandbox, hack and slash, fighting games, music, dance, minigame and many more.


Sandbox goes under Action/Adventure as well as Hack, n, slash.  It does seem I've missed fighting though.




       

I have to ask: Did you include games that are also on PC as exclusives ever? Because they are not...



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KylieDog said:
JayWood2010 said:
KylieDog said:
You've lumped games into odd catagories. Borderlands is mainly an RPG, a rail shooter is not an FPS, no Tomb Raider in platforming (Underworld and Trilogy at least, not really the new one), Monster Hunter is a hunting game, not JRPG, speaking of RPGs why break down into WRPG and JRPG and not MMORPG, SRPG etc etc.

Missing entire genres too. Where are sandbox, hack and slash, fighting games, music, dance, minigame and many more.


Sandbox goes under Action/Adventure as well as Hack, n, slash.  It does seem I've missed fighting though.


Well that is ridiculous, you're lumping GTA, God of War and Zelda into one genre when they are all completely different.  Zelda is the only action-adventure of the three.


Look them up.  They are literally classified as Action/Adventure.  Hack,n slash is a sub genre as well as sandbox that are under action/adventure. 




       

Jaywood, 99% of people would not lump Sandbox with Action or action Adventure. Im really tempted to turn my computer on and rip your thread but make it more accurate. You got something going on, but your just lazy or not knowledgeable enough to pull it off.



Xxain said:
Jaywood, 99% of people would not lump Sandbox with Action or action Adventure. Im really tempted to turn my computer on and rip your thread but make it more accurate. You got something going on, but your just lazy or not knowledgeable enough to pull it off.


Although action-adventure games are diverse and difficult to classify, there are some distinct sub-genres. Popular sub-genres include:

  • First-person action-adventure, which make use of first-person shooter gameplay, forgoing constant action in favor of important adventure game elements such as environmental problem-solving and a complex plot. These are sometimes called Real-Time Adventure games or RTAs for short. A notable example of this is Metroid Prime and System Shock.
  • Third-person action-adventure, in which gameplay is in the third-person. Notable examples include games like The Legend of Zelda series, RuneSeverance: Blade of DarknessGrand Theft Auto series, and Hitman series.
  • Isometric platform games, which feature freely explorable environments with three-dimensional gameplay and two-dimensional graphics using an isometric projection.
  • Sandbox, which focus on nonlinear gameplay in an open world. Notable examples include Assassin's Creed and the Grand Theft Auto series.
  • Platform-adventure games, which emphasize both exploration and puzzle solving, but also feature traditional platform game conventions. Examples of games of this type are Banjo-Kazooie the Metroidvania games.
  • Stealth games, which emphasize avoiding detection by enemies rather than engaging them in direct combat, leading to a greater emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving than other types of action games.
  • Survival horror games, which emphasize "inventory management" and making sure the player has enough ammunition and recovery items to "survive" the horror setting. Survival-horror is a thematic genre with diverse gameplay, however, so not all survival horror games share these features. The Resident Evil franchise popularized this sub-genre and stands to date as the most popular franchise of its kind.



       

KylieDog said:
JayWood2010 said:
KylieDog said:
JayWood2010 said:
KylieDog said:
You've lumped games into odd catagories. Borderlands is mainly an RPG, a rail shooter is not an FPS, no Tomb Raider in platforming (Underworld and Trilogy at least, not really the new one), Monster Hunter is a hunting game, not JRPG, speaking of RPGs why break down into WRPG and JRPG and not MMORPG, SRPG etc etc.

Missing entire genres too. Where are sandbox, hack and slash, fighting games, music, dance, minigame and many more.


Sandbox goes under Action/Adventure as well as Hack, n, slash.  It does seem I've missed fighting though.


Well that is ridiculous, you're lumping GTA, God of War and Zelda into one genre when they are all completely different.  Zelda is the only action-adventure of the three.


Look them up.  They are literally classified as Action/Adventure.  Hack,n slash is a sub genre as well as sandbox that are under action/adventure. 


Yet you broke down RPGs into subgenres of WRPG and JRPG.


Thats good he did that. He's cutting corners on alot other stuff though.



Xxain said:


By you being pigheaded you are only devalue your thread. 2D vs 3D mario is only for game design purposes only. In an actual investers meeting Where discuss sales of platform Mario's they would treated as one not seperated. Wii's platformer data is not accurate. Digital we rarely ever here about actually sales and more about thresholds past. Its just good consider something that we cant really have a estimate. For example Sonic Adventure 2 spent 6 month in PSN & XBL top 10( actually still think it is PSN). Im sure it outsold Limbo. The more accurate the better.


lol not even close.
http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/blog/186346/xbla2012sega.png

107k on XBLA after 3 months. Won't probably even be at 200k by now (or maybe just barely). PSN sales won't be higher either. Also Limbo on PSN > Sonic Adventures 2 on PSN (Source: FADE).