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Well done Ninty supreme

I don't think this is a particularly fair comparison to the 360, which has bundled some games from time to time, but nothing on the order of Wii Sports. Still, what it does show is that the Wii has done a tremendous job of moving software, contrary to what many on the Internet still believe. At this time last year, I believe that the 360 had about 16 million sellers, so the Wii is easily winning that year-on-year comparison.

I see it's impossible to have any thread about Wii million sellers without someone bringing up third parties... *sigh* Someone please tell me why it's "atrocious" for the Wii to have eight third-party million sellers, while the PS3 currently only has five - despite VASTLY more time and money going into the latter platform.

Sullla, the numbers are changing fast too, next week Lego Star Wars will be a million seller, in 4 or 5 weeks RRR2 will be a million seller, in about 5 weeks my sims will be a million seller.

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 QFT,

The basis of this thread is pretty weak.  At the bare minimum pack-in games need to be tracked consistantly between both consoles.  But even then ...well you get the idea...

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 X2

nuff said 

Not to mention NO other developer consistently puts out good titles in such a wide variety of genres. Every single other developer out there either concentrates on far fewer genres, or does a rather poor job, comparably.

It can be stated without any bias whatsoever that Nintendo is most certainly the best developer out there. It's why they're able to support the world's most popular gaming console in history with practically just their own titles, and it's why they survived two full generations of gaming on almost entirely their own titles - with both consoles selling at a rate that would be considered "successful".

One cannot deny Nintendo's extreme talent as a developer. They may not be your favourite, but you've got to at least accept their quality.

OT: Guys, this WAS cherrypicking, and it IS a weak statement, but you do have to admit... it's a milestone nonetheless, especially since the statistics show Wii will end up passing the 360 in the end.

 You've got to remember - Nintendo's pack-ins are a large part of why people have purchased the Wii in the first place. If it weren't for their pack-ins, the Wii undoubtedly wouldn't have sold as much as it has. So, each and every one of those pack-ins should count. Same for the mess of pack-ins Microsoft has done; you can't discredit them. No matter how much you dislike them, they're still valid numbers. You can't know how much a motivator they were for people.

Wow. Really reaching here.

Reading your post is possibly the most painful thing I've done today, and that's actually saying something. -_-

First of all, look at the Wii's software sales.

See all the third party million sellers? There are 8 now, with 1 more arriving next week, and 2 almost certain to reach the magic number in a month or two. This means third parties are selling well on the Wii.

Next, look at the list of upcoming games.

See all the third party games? Certainly not all will end up great, but at least King's Story, Odoro Muramasa Youtouden, Opoona, Battle of the Bands, Monster Lab, Boom Blox, Tales of Symphonia, Fragile, Mushroom Men, Crystal Chronicles, De Blob, and Deadly Creatures are serious exclusive efforts by at the very least decent development teams. They're not even nearly all AAA, but there's not a single piece of shovelware amongst them. I don't think Zack&Wiki or No More Heroes were even announced this time last year, so we can expect several more titles that we haven't heard of yet. That's not even getting into multiplats like Alone in the Dark, Spore, Rock Band, and Street Fighter 4, or the entire Wii Ware service.

In other words, we already know of many times more promising third party exclusives and multiplats in March than what came out in all of 2007. This means third parties are significantly increasing their support for the Wii.

Now you've probably noticed that most of the exclusives aren't exactly big names. That's because big sequels to popular franchises, probably what most people refer to as AAA games, take a long time to develop. The Wii's status as this gen's best selling console only became apparent during the last year or so, and the best dev teams of most publishers are still working on various projects for the HD consoles that are too far in production to suddenly port over.

Yes, we've been saying this for quite a while, but it hasn't suddenly stopped being true. So far Monster Hunter 3 and Fatal Frame 4 have jumped over to being Wii exclusives, and don't expect the trend to suddenly change for no reason at all. This means the Wii is starting to get big AAA games as well. Just slowly as expected...

Oh, and with Nintendo being the single best developer on the planet, I meant that they make more great games of different types than any other single developer, not that they make the best games in every single genre in existance. Staying away from some genres has always been a part of Nintendo's strategy due to their belief in accessability (=trying to avoid making games only a small segment of the market can enjoy), and conciously leaving them for third parties to work on (which understandably didn't work too well on the Gamecube).

The title is a bit misleading, and the stat is completely meaningless. Companies would rather have a better chance at succeeding (more million selling titles) than a lottery-type chance at getting lots of sales (more copies of million selling games). Not to mention the third-party games are still selling more on the 360 by both measures.