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RenegadePhantasm on 10 August 2008

Here's a look at how 3rd party games compare in number of sales on the Wii.    For this data I used the top 100 selling games in the US each for the Wii and 360 and separated into 1st party and 3rd party published games.   I also took the top 50 selling games on each platform for this week.   This graph shows that there haven't been as many 3rd party huge sellers on the Wii.   It doesn't take the budget of the game into account, so it is difficult to tell whether or not 3rd parties have found success on the Wii.

 

This was somewhat inspired by this Kotaku article, http://kotaku.com/5034951/heres-that-wii-third-party-sales-proof-you-requested?cpage=3 .   Since the Wii has had more games in total released for it, the total 3rd party sales are more than on the other consoles.



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megaman79 on 10 August 2008

Ok so i think thats a good graph but WW figures? The first thing im thinking is Nintendo 1st parties are just not all that popular in US maybe. I think WW figures would suit this better.



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RenegadePhantasm on 12 August 2008

I didn't use World-wide sales data because different games are released in a different number of regions.   I thought it would simplify the comparison and allow me to get a figure for the number of weeks released if using US data.   It also seems like most companies focus on the US sales data instead of worldwide.



kingofwale on 12 August 2008
RenegadePhantasm said:

Here's a look at how 3rd party games compare in number of sales on the Wii. For this data I used the top 100 selling games in the US each for the Wii and 360 and separated into 1st party and 3rd party published games. I also took the top 50 selling games on each platform for this week. This graph shows that there haven't been as many 3rd party huge sellers on the Wii. It doesn't take the budget of the game into account, so it is difficult to tell whether or not 3rd parties have found success on the Wii.

 

This was somewhat inspired by this Kotaku article, http://kotaku.com/5034951/heres-that-wii-third-party-sales-proof-you-requested?cpage=3 . Since the Wii has had more games in total released for it, the total 3rd party sales are more than on the other consoles.

nice diagram. it's clear that most of the blue dots are focusing on the bottom.

except for two.. let me guesss... Mario and Sonic, and Wii Play? ;)

Both with Nintendo's help.. one with Nintendo Mascot, another packed in the controller.



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c0rd on 12 August 2008
kingofwale said:

nice diagram. it's clear that most of the blue dots are focusing on the bottom.

except for two.. let me guesss... Mario and Sonic, and Wii Play? ;)

Both with Nintendo's help.. one with Nintendo Mascot, another packed in the controller.

Wii Play is first party - it'd be off the charts if they included it anyway.  My guess would be Guitar Hero 3 / Mario & Sonic (GH3 bein the higher one).



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RenegadePhantasm on 12 August 2008
c0rd said:
kingofwale said:

nice diagram. it's clear that most of the blue dots are focusing on the bottom.

except for two.. let me guesss... Mario and Sonic, and Wii Play? ;)

Both with Nintendo's help.. one with Nintendo Mascot, another packed in the controller.

Wii Play is first party - it'd be off the charts if they included it anyway.  My guess would be Guitar Hero 3 / Mario & Sonic (GH3 bein the higher one).

yep.  Mario and Sonic is practically first party anyways.   And the first party title at the bottom is Endless Ocean.

 

 

 



johnsobas on 12 August 2008

wii games usually sell for a long time, many 360 and ps3 games don't. We have all the raw numbers, just use those.



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steven787 on 12 August 2008

And Wii games are way cheaper to produce. We really need to do a comprehensive study on revenue and profit from third party games to get a real picture...

Or just look at the number of games that get released per month, to get a feel of where 3rd parties are making more games. Since they are profit driven, they will produce more games for the console that offers them the highest rate of profit.

According to IGN, 43 Wii games from third parties in September and 32 for 360.



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Mezelf13 on 12 August 2008

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Sqrl on 12 August 2008
kingofwale said:
RenegadePhantasm said:

Here's a look at how 3rd party games compare in number of sales on the Wii. For this data I used the top 100 selling games in the US each for the Wii and 360 and separated into 1st party and 3rd party published games. I also took the top 50 selling games on each platform for this week. This graph shows that there haven't been as many 3rd party huge sellers on the Wii. It doesn't take the budget of the game into account, so it is difficult to tell whether or not 3rd parties have found success on the Wii.

 

This was somewhat inspired by this Kotaku article, http://kotaku.com/5034951/heres-that-wii-third-party-sales-proof-you-requested?cpage=3 . Since the Wii has had more games in total released for it, the total 3rd party sales are more than on the other consoles.

nice diagram. it's clear that most of the blue dots are focusing on the bottom.

except for two.. let me guesss... Mario and Sonic, and Wii Play? ;)

Both with Nintendo's help.. one with Nintendo Mascot, another packed in the controller.

You do realize that the first line is 500k units right?  500k is great sales for WW, for the US only its outstanding.

@Topic,

A few points:

- Until very recently the 360 installed base was still larger in the US, so 360 games in the US should, on the average, outperform Wii games.

- The US is the 360's strongest market, not only in hardware sales, but especially in software sales where the 360's library is largely focused on appealing to this market, so they should perform quite well here.

- 3rd Party support for the Wii was lackluster from launch until the later half of '07 (longer depending on who you ask), shouldn't be surprising for the 40+ week games as a group to underperform

 
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