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Mars said:

07 of the Top 10 PS3 games are Third Party (70%)
15 of the Top 20 PS3 games are Third Party (75%)
23 of the Top 30 PS2 games are Third Party (76.6%)

07 of the Top 10 360 games are Third Party (70%)
16 of the Top 20 360 games are Third Party (80%)
22 of the Top 30 360 games are Third Party (73.3%)

02 of the Top 10 Wii games are Third Party (20%)
07 of the Top 20 Wii games are Third Party (35%)
15 of the Top 30 Wii games are Third Party (50%)

 

try spinning this.

Okay.

The spin, in one sentence, is:

Sony's and Microsoft's first party games just aren't as good as Nintendo's. 

 



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Nintendo is the best developer EVER!!!
Is normal what they sell more than TP.



@Mars

Calling me names, and insulting my ability to think are insults. Are you ignorant or something?

@ Generic Username 01

lol That kinda does sum it up!

 



 

 

 

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If you look in VGChartz's games rankings, you have to go all the way down to 17 before you find a non-Nintendo game, and down to 24 before you find a game that's not on Nintendo hardware.



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azrm2k said:


In the end you're blaming Nintendo and making fun of them for having amazing first party studios which result in all of their titles getting real high sales.

 hilarious especially since their worst games sale the best.

the top 10 selling wii games have these review scores (gamesranking).

1 - 76%
2 - 60%
3 - 97.2%
4 - 64%
5 - 97.5%
6 -  67.8%
7 - 82%
8 - 85%
9 - 69%
10 - 86.5

 Apperantly quality does not matter all that much as far as sales on the wii are concerened.

here are the top 3 for wii 360 and PS3

Wii
1 - 76%
2 - 60%
3 - 97.2%
overall =  77.7%

360
1 - 93%
2 - 93.8
3 - 94.1
overall - 93.6 

PS3
1 - 82.5
2 - 93.6
3 - 86.7
overall - 87.6% 

 

Quality of the games looks to be least important on the wii as far as sales go.

 



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@Mars

I love the way you ignored the 97.2% rating when you made that top 3 comparison.



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Generic Username 01 said:
@Mars

I love the way you ignored the 97.2% rating when you made that top 3 comparison.

 how did i ignore it, i factored it ito the overall %

 nice try.

  



^Let's exclude the sucky Pack-in's and games people buy for controllers... or the games catering to the casuals...
(In other words, the games Nintendo fans care about)
Wii:
1-97.2%
2-97.5%
3-82.0%

New Average: 92.2%



 

 

 

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@Mars: How's this for spin? 

PS3 Top 10 3rd party sellers average sales: 1.46 million (7 games got 10.26 million)
Wii Top 10 3rd party sellers average sales: 2.63 (2 games got 5.26 million)

kinda a bad sample though with only 2 games for Wii so let's put it out to 30:

PS3 Total: 23 games with 18.75 million for an average of .82 million sales per game
Wii Total: 15 games with 18.95 million for an average of 1.26 million sales per game

If Wii third party games sell like crap then more 3rd party games should be satisfied with "crap".  Obviously the Wii gets more sales due to a much higher userbase but sales are all that will matter to the developers not the rank compared to other titles on the same platform.  They don't get a bonus for having a higher attach rate.  They get the same money if ten million buy it on a userbase of twenty million as if ten million bought it on a userbase of 500 million. 

Infact i'd say a developer would rather a game sell two million with an attach rate of 15% than sell one million with an attach rate of 45%.



Nintendo have 4 games in the best 7 in the history in gamerankings.