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Generic Username 01 on 08 March 2008

Wii Sports & Wii Play shouldn't count as one is bundled and the other isn't full price. If you remove those, Wii's top 3 become:

1 - 97.2%
2 - 64%
3 - 97.5%

Average: 86.2%

Still last, but only 1% behind the PS3.



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Mars on 08 March 2008
azrm2k said:

@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%.


 Good post.

 but to bad apperantly 3rd partys prefer to make 360/PS3 games then a wii games

 

 

 

  



Generic Username 01 on 08 March 2008

And why does it matter when First Party is so good? Let's look at the stats:

The Top 16 Highest Rated Games on VGChartz are all 1st-Party Nintendo games.
The Top 10 Best Selling Games ever are all 1st-Party Nintendo games.



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Torillian on 08 March 2008
Generic Username 01 said:
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.
I'm not sure if this is evidence that Nintendo is the best developer or simply evidence of the preferences of most who visit the site. If you go to Gamerankings.com you only have to go to no. 4 to find something that isn't made by Nintendo.
 
This isn't saying that Nintendo is not the best developer, but that they aren't the end-all be-all of videogames that the above quote would make one believe.

 



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__XBrawlX__ on 08 March 2008

^Because They don't understand that they can't please us with their crappy ports. If they want to make a wii version of their game, they should develop a separate version. Also, looking at sales...

1
Super Mario BrosNintendo10,3278.0940.24m
2
Pokemon Red / Green / BlueNintendo7,2167.8431.38m
3
TetrisNintendo3,7157.8430.26m
4
Duck HuntNintendo3,7937.7528.31m
5
Pokemon Gold / SilverNintendo3,2227.8123.11m
6
Super Mario WorldNintendo8,7998.1220.61m
7
Wii SportsNintendo37,7897.8419.68m
8
Super Mario LandNintendo3,1157.8418.14m
9
NintendogsNintendo12,8917.7817.62m
10
Super Mario Bros 3Nintendo11,5968.0917.28m

top ten best selling games of all time, are all nintendo made games.



 

 

 

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Mars on 08 March 2008
Generic Username 01 said:
And why does it matter when First Party is so good? Let's look at the stats:

The Top 16 Highest Rated Games on VGChartz are all 1st-Party Nintendo games.
The Top 10 Best Selling Games ever are all 1st-Party Nintendo games.

 LMAO

 using vg rankings, you really are a new to this palce ehh.



The Ghost of RubangB on 08 March 2008

You know why 3rd party games do so well on PlayStation and XBox sytems?

Because Nintendo doesn't make games for PlayStation and XBox, and Sony and MicroSoft make shit for games.

End of story. You can't knock Nintendo for being the world's greatest developer and making their own console and zillions of dollars. Hop on their money train or get the fuck out of their way.



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Generic Username 01 on 08 March 2008

Okay then. Even if you ignore VG Rankings, you can't argue with VG Sales.

The Top 10 best selling games ever are all Nintendo games.

Also, let's take a look at the Top 5 best ever 1st-Party Microsoft games:

1. Halo 3

2. Halo

3. Halo 2

4. Ummm....

5. Gee, this is awkward.



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__XBrawlX__ on 08 March 2008

Your really outnumbered here Mars...
Almost everyone else seems to think Nintendo is the Best Game Developer. Weather you think so or Not.



 

 

 

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Mars on 08 March 2008
__XBrawlX__ said:
Your really outnumbered here Mars...
Almost everyone else seems to think Nintendo is the Best Game Developer. Weather you think so or Not.

this is vg bud, of course wii fanboys out number every one else.

 

Every one else lol tell it to Gran turismo fans, tell that to Grand theft Auto, Halo and Star craft fans.