Highly interesting to see the Wii vs. PS3 in this, 11:7 in the Wiis favour as far as I can see. I take it third parties do sell on the Wii? =P

Anyway 360 domination as expected, that system certainly does move a lot of software. Its partly due to its extra time on the market but I also do think its partly due to its target audience.

starcraft said: But do third party developers say to themselves "but look at the time frame" when deciding where to put their game? No. They simply look at a console's ability to make profit for third parties.

Yes they do. They propably look two things: 1. Look at what kind of games have sold and how much. 2. Look at what kind of games are currently selling and how much. From 1, they get to see what kind of games people own on a certain console. From 2, they get to see what kind of games people are buying currently on a certain console. Comparing 1 and 2, you get to see is a platform saturated by games of certain genre, how increased competition have affected to sales and what kind of variety of games do the platform have. If we have a platform that has the most variety in games, with steady sales for every genre, without a single games sales topping competing, less varied, platforms top selling games, there opens up a (nearly) risk-free market for cross-genre games, as well as it's safe to put any game on the platform, since you're able to make money with it anyway. How did Mario Kart and SSBB release effect other games sales? Before and after release? How did Halo 3 and CoD4 effect the other games sales? And i decided to leave the number three (which relates to number two) for the last: Most propably publishers look at sales on a given time period, last six months, or two months and change in numbers and add them up to 1 and 2. Since looking only what games sold and how much doesn't tell you much about what games are selling on a platform.

Rath said: Highly interesting to see the Wii vs. PS3 in this, 11:7 in the Wiis favour as far as I can see. I take it third parties do sell on the Wii? =P Anyway 360 domination as expected, that system certainly does move a lot of software. Its partly due to its extra time on the market but I also do think its partly due to its target audience.

 It would be interesting to compare attach rates from different regions, I don't think I have seen it before. I do think Americans have a higher attach rate (on X360) than other regions, but I'm not sure.

PS2 is still selling quite well and some non-first party games have become million sellers since the launch of all the consoles in this new generation (more if you including since the launch of 360)...add them as well, just for comparison.

starcraft said: But do third party developers say to themselves "but look at the time frame" when deciding where to put their game? No. They simply look at a console's ability to make profit for third parties.

Yes, they do say to themselves "but look at the time frame". They are not idiots. That being said, developers in particular are not just about profits, like it or not. Publishers might fit that frame better, but a fact of life is that ALL businesses are run by people who have personal preferences that affect their decision making. Nothing is 100% about maximizing profits, save for some automated currency/stock exchange systems.

The Fury said: PS2 is still selling quite well and some non-first party games have become million sellers since the launch of all the consoles in this new generation (more if you including since the launch of 360)...add them as well, just for comparison.

 That's a lot of games and a lot of work (since I have to crosscheck release dates etc). But feel free to do so

If I get around to writing a script for this, then maybe. But manual labour...no.