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Ka-pi96 said:
eva01beserk said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Really? So how many Wii games are at the top of the yearly charts for the last few years of the 7th gen compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360 then? Not many at all...

You mean like brawl who sold 12 million unit? or mari kart who sold 35? or zelda who sold 9m and 4m? mtroid over 2m? Or just look at this list wich includes wii sports for over 80m.

http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/2/wii/ 

What have the lifetime sales of games that released in 2008 and 2006 got to do with the last few years of the 7th gen?

They clearly did drop off quite considerably, you even showed that yourself. The 2006 Zelda game managed almost double the 2011 Zelda. 4 million and 2 million aren't very much compared to PS3 and Xbox 360 games that would sell 10 million+ every year.

Like all theese great ps3 games http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/3/playstation-3/ 

Or like all theese great 360 games who toped the charts http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/7/xbox-360/ 

Fact is, that each has at most 2 games unike to them who toped list. Everithing else was a multyplat, that was not on wii because it did not look preety. Is that what a hardcore console is to you, A box with preetier images? If that where true, then forget current gen and lets all just play on pc.



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Ka-pi96 said:
XanderXT said:
Why is everyone hating on the Wii? What did it ever do to you?

I don't know if I would call it hating on the Wii, more trying to explain it's sales. Sales don't just happen, especially huge ones like that, there are reasons for them and they do need to be considered when making comparisons.

So very true!

But i see it as easily explained.

Both wii and PS4 became darlings in the mass media, kinda original iphone love type situation.  It is why both sold/selling even if their software lineups were questionable by much of the hardcore gamer community.




platformmaster918 said:

it was an anomaly and not the product of a normal gaming market.  It had an abnormal selling pattern and sold to a different audience than ANY of the current consoles are aimed at.  In other words those people are not part of the gaming market they're just people who happened to buy one game console one time.  Hell some of the grandmas might not even be with us anymore


And how does this make the Wii a lesser console to the PS3 or Xbox 360, when both Sony and Microsoft were scrambling to rush out competing products to the Wii Controller?

I never called it inferior.  I owned a Wii for the regular games, but most of its audience was fickle casuals as WiiU sales have shown and the 4 generations of Nintendo (home) consoles before that (never got close to 100m).  It was an anomaly as I said and the market should not be seen as collapsing just because Nintendo goes in decline.




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Ka-pi96 said:

Accurate? Not really. Although we can make assumptions based on the sales, PS3 and Xbox 360 continued selling for a much longer period and game sales stayed high throughout the gen. Wii sold really well to start with but dropped off massively, same with Wii game sales.

That doesn't conclusively prove anything but it does suggest there were many more casuals that bought a Wii than a PS3 or Xbox 360 and simply lost interest as the years went on, as casuals would do.


You need to look at why the PS3 and 360 continued to sell after the Wii finally started dropping off. The answer is in the software support. Nintendo pretty much abandoned the Wii during 2011 (It still sold over 11.5 Million units this Year) to focus on the release of Wii U in 2012 and the early struggles we saw from 3DS.

With no Nintendo support, the Wii was doomed to have a quick death as the 3rd party efforts on the machine simply werent good enough or frequent enough to keep it afloat for X Years.

There is no denying that the Wii thrived due to the expanded market of gamers, but to try exclude the Wii from any comparisons just because of the success they had is simply wrong, especially when you look at what Sony and Microsoft both did to get in on the action to expand the life of their respective consoles.

Teeqoz said:

Nobody's saying that it's a lesser console, but that if you want to know the actual size of the console market, and how stuff is selling compared to the size of the console market, then the Wii will make your numbers skewed because a lot of the Wii buyers won't ever buy another console.

The size of the market was expanded thanks to Nintendos efforts.

Sony and Microsoft both jumped on board and got boosts from it with Move and Kinect. The main problem we are seeing now with that market disappearing is because they arent being supported in a meaningful way and havent been since Gen 8 was actually announced with Wii U in mid-2011.



                            

Ka-pi96 said:

We were arguing about how Wii game sales dropped off in the later years to try and proove the amount of hardcore gamers on the Wii. How does lifetime sales have anything to do with that? The sales did drop off, games in the last few years of last gen on Wii sold significantly less than games from the early years did. Yeah alot of PS3 and Xbox 360s game sales were multiplat, but a lot of the big selling ones like COD WERE on Wii as well.


Bolded - Name the games. Bring up the significant Wii releases post-2010.



                            

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Ka-pi96 said:
eva01beserk said:
Ka-pi96 said:

What have the lifetime sales of games that released in 2008 and 2006 got to do with the last few years of the 7th gen?

They clearly did drop off quite considerably, you even showed that yourself. The 2006 Zelda game managed almost double the 2011 Zelda. 4 million and 2 million aren't very much compared to PS3 and Xbox 360 games that would sell 10 million+ every year.

Like all theese great ps3 games http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/3/playstation-3/ 

Or like all theese great 360 games who toped the charts http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/7/xbox-360/ 

Fact is, that each has at most 2 games unike to them who toped list. Everithing else was a multyplat, that was not on wii because it did not look preety. Is that what a hardcore console is to you, A box with preetier images? If that where true, then forget current gen and lets all just play on pc.

We were arguing about how Wii game sales dropped off in the later years to try and proove the amount of hardcore gamers on the Wii. How does lifetime sales have anything to do with that? The sales did drop off, games in the last few years of last gen on Wii sold significantly less than games from the early years did. Yeah alot of PS3 and Xbox 360s game sales were multiplat, but a lot of the big selling ones like COD WERE on Wii as well.

LIke I kept saying, they looked better and played the same so of course it will sell better on hd consoles. But since I only have the 360 page looking at right now, how many of those late console releases toped the chartz? Call of duty wich is always up there on xbox, halo 4 and GTA5. Those are the only late gen games to even come close to the numbers you sugested. So did 360 also sold a lot worst in late gen? 



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JayWood2010 said:
AnthonyW86 said:



The point is if you count the Wii the 7 gen consoles will always end up higher combined than the 8 gen. The problem with that is that it would make you think that the market is shrinking, while in fact the core gaming market could be growing. It's just the casuals that have moved on.


I think that makes sense.  XBO/PS4 is growing, or at least selling faster than PS360 did for the first full year.    WiiU shrunk considerably, as you said much of its crowd left.

However Wii still shouldnt be ignored.  Its a part of history as well.  Some of the reason PS2 sold for example was because it was a cheap DVD player, but we shouldnt exclude people buying it for that reason either.  The market changes over the years but that is no reason to ignore the past either.

I agree the Wii shouldn't be ignored. It probably will remain the fastest selling console in history, and if PS4 would end up lower in sales than the Wii than nobody will deny the fact. However if you want to compare an entire generation, i think it's important to count in the fact that a lot of Wii buyers aren't regulars in the gaming community.

And i think when most developers are interested in the growing or shrinking of install bases of home consoles, they will mostly focus on Playstation and Xbox.



Ka-pi96 said:
Carl2291 said:

Bolded - Name the games. Bring up the significant Wii releases post-2010.

Exclusives wise:  Pokepark 2, Pandora's Tower, The Last Story, Mario & Sonic Olympics, Zelda Skyward Sword & Dragon Quest X
As well as plenty of multiplat games such as COD and FIFA

Not a huge number of exclusives but still a few, and then there is the multiplats. Sure you'll probably say they people bought them on PS3/X360 instead, but that's the point isn't it? People didn't stick around with the Wii they moved on to other consoles or even to mobile phone gaming.


This is why I said significant. The fact that you had to list Poképark 2, Pandora's Tower, The Last Story and a JP only MMO as significant exclusive releases highlights what I previously said. Combined they managed to shift a total of ~9.8 Million units lifetime, with M&S 2012/ Zelda doing over 70% of that total.

Compare it to 2010, where Wii Party alone managed over 8 Million units. Nevermind whatever Super Mario Galaxy 2 did or what Donkey Kong Country Returns did, among the smaller Million sellers released for the machine.

The fact is that developers (including Nintendo) simply stopped developing significant Wii games sometime during 2010. The '11 and '12 release schedules being as barebones as they were for extended periods of time is proof of that. While the Wii was still topping the charts in 2009/10, developers completely abandoned the machine for whatever reason. It wasnt the Wii audience shifting away, it was a total lack of quality, significant releases for the Wii audience to play.



                            

Oh I didn't even see this thread.

Here's some aligned YTD numbers. They help show the PS4 an XBOX ONE had amazing launches.

Wii: 8.30

PS4: 5.64

PS3: 3.33* includes European launch

360: 3.13

PS3: 2.5ish* excludes European launch

XBO: 1.94

Wii U: 1.14



DS and 3DS numbers are far closer than i thought. Also, i didn't realise PS4 was THAT successful. The Wii was very successful at first.



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