Oh, I'm not saying that Boom Blox didn't do decently. If it met EA's expectations, then that's really all that matters. The thing is that is really could have done a lot better if people knew about it.

You bring up some good points though. I would say MySims was an established name though, because of the "Sim" name. Other Sim games haven't been very successful on consoles though, but I think that's because they were mediocre at best. MySims seems to be the revival of the game that some have been looking for. It was a slow and steady seller, and I expect Boom Blox to be similar, hitting a million eventually (probably around this holiday season).

Boom Blox did have a lot of competition that month. I do expect the game to have legs, so it'll be interesting to see where the game ends up.

I read the op, and I saw reasons why 3rd parties could never suceed at the level nintendo does, unless they do those things. It doesn't have anything in common with the other threads that just blantantly state 3rd parties aren't supporting the wii. So please explain to me how I'm wrong.

I thought he was agreeing with you.

 First, sorry, I wrote a bit bad. The PS has nothing to do with you.

Secondly, even though GTA IV was launched, Ps3 is likely to always have at least 1 huge 3rd party seller each half year. Maybe not as big as GTA, but still.

January through May 2008, Wii sold 17.6M 3rd party software, Ps3 sold 18.5M software. That's higher sales wise, not only AR wise. My point including the userbase difference was to mark the problem, but really, there was no need for me to add it.

Sure, but you can't just leave Nintendo's games out of the equation. They brought Mario Kart, Brawl and WiiFit in the first half of 2008. Surely that will cause less sales for others. If you want to compete you have to deliver the same quality. Still I don't think 18 million is bad. But I'm sure that the second half of 2008 Wii will have highest 3rd party sales of all platforms. Guitar Hero, RockBand, Madden (improved), Pro Evo, Symphonia 2 and a whole bunch of other games will release. Most of those games are very suited towards the audience and are quality as well.

You may say that GTA IV launched, but M&S, which isn't really a 3rd party game (still counted though) has sold more than the Ps3 version (by far through May only).

The fact that you are seeing higher quality titles won't neccessarily mean more sales, and even the quality of those titles, are to be frank, not that high.

You can list that Ps3 has 70 titles that has sold less than 400K. That's cherry picking as hell. Many of those titles are low quality titles, that are also multiplat. Yeah, I know that's cherry picking. That's why I added that list. Just to be clear here, this is not the total list, it goes far beyond 100. Again I justed wanted to show that 3rd parties have lots of trouble on all platforms this gen. Stranglehold almost killed the publisher, Lair certainly was a big loss for Factor 5 etc. If you take into acount that PS3 titles (especially the exclusives) are very expensive than you don't need to be an expert to see lots of financial failures there. So not only on Wii.

If you want an ultimate proof of a hardcore failure on Wii, try this: http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7569

Sorry, MLB Power Pro's??? I know it got great reviews, but in what Universe did you expect this to sell very well?

There are over 200 games on Wii that sold less than 400K. There are 50 that sold more. On Ps3 the situation is drastically better, therefore, listing what you did just seems odd to me. Eh, no the situation is not better on PS3. There are 38 games over 400.000 on PS3, 50 on Wii. There are 25 million sellers on Wii, 15 on PS3, there are 14  2 million + sellers on Wii, 5 on PS3. And again, development costs are much lower on Wii. So you're absolutely wrong here. Wii is a big software seller, 3rd parties just don't really know jhow to do it.

For the fact, 40 have sold more and 120 less on Ps3, not as much better as I thought, but still makes your list a bit odd.

Ok, my list was to show the bizarre habit to always pick on Wii's 3rd party situation while the others are equally bad. Nothing else.

Anyway, sorry for a bit bad writing making it appear I was criticicing you.

This is a great post.

Question though, what is The Dog Island about? Looking at the game, it doesn't seem to be much more than the Petz games that have come out. Victorious Boxers Revolution looks interesting, but I've never seen the game anywhere. I'll have to check amazon.com to see if they have the game. Might pick it up.