Nice software sales.




Barozi said:
If you take out the bundled games for both consoles, 360 wins |
First off, barring weeks of big releases, that's simply not true. Second off, the 360's bundled numbers are very hard to track because we can't easily track how many of the sales of each game are bundled or sold separately. Given the Wii's humongous userbase lead over the 360, I'd say that it's impressive that the 360 is holding its own. But let's just leave it at that.
Squilliam said:
Solitaire outsold the Wiis whole library. Best game ever = Solitaire, because its awesome. I think Shio counts it when he says PC games outsell console games, but I think its unfair to count bundles!
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Even if you take out Wii Sports bundles, Wii still has 2 10-million sellers, and MK Wii also going to reach that figure. Wii has 15 2-million sellers and 29 1-million sellers... maybe not as great as 360 but it was released a year after. Now that is impressive.
And about PC games, I think you'd have to be jaded to think that X360 has more million sellers than PC in the past 3 years. Especially considering that every The Sims 2 and CIV expansion were probably multi-million sellers. I could make a list of million sellers, but since it's near impossible to get figures from PC games it would take alot of guesstimation.
MontanaHatchet said:
First off, barring weeks of big releases, that's simply not true. Second off, the 360's bundled numbers are very hard to track because we can't easily track how many of the sales of each game are bundled or sold separately. Given the Wii's humongous userbase lead over the 360, I'd say that it's impressive that the 360 is holding its own. But let's just leave it at that. |
Why should I make an exception for weeks with big releases ? The costumer wanted to buy those blockbuster games, so they should count towards software sales.
Bundles are a different story. Of course only official bundles would be left out. (Wii Sports in EU/NA, about 30% of Forza 2, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and VIVA Pinata sales, etc.). I agree, that it is a bit unfair not to count any sales for Wii Sports, cause I'm sure even without bundling it would have sold ~15+ million units until now.
Barozi said:
Why should I make an exception for weeks with big releases ? The costumer wanted to buy those blockbuster games, so they should count towards software sales. Bundles are a different story. Of course only official bundles would be left out. (Wii Sports in EU/NA, about 30% of Forza 2, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and VIVA Pinata sales, etc.). I agree, that it is a bit unfair not to count any sales for Wii Sports, cause I'm sure even without bundling it would have sold ~15+ million units until now. |
I wanted to bar these weeks because, for example, the Wii lost the software battle for the week when Gears of War 2 launched even though it won nearly every week leading up to that. Likewise, it wouldn't be fair to compare the 360 to the Wii during the launch week for a big Wii game like Brawl.
As for bundles, there are tons of them on all 3 consoles and it would be pretty hard to keep track of them all. I've heard reports of games such as Brawl being bundled with Wiis in some stores in Europe, along with the bajillions of bundled PS3 games and what now seems to be a neverending supply of 360 games being bundled. It's pointless to take out the bundles anyways, since at least a decent percentage of those receiving the bundle would have just bought other games anyways.
360 is really TBH THE place Devs HAVE to come to if they want to make some serious profit. Especially if it is a shooter.
End of '08 predictions (made by theprof00): PS3: 20m, 360: 23.5m, wii: 42m
Now Playin': PS3|Resistance 2, LBP, Uncharted and Fifa 09, PSP| Ratchet and Clank: Size matters, 360| Gears of war 2 and Fallout 3.
39 of them are third party million sellers, that is even more impressive.
Ok, so I'm not into signatures, but some Xbox FanPerson needs to create a signature that tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6 million sellers with the list. That would be a cool sig. It does appear the 360 sells alot of software. A non-biased might consider both the PS3 and 360 million sellers in their sig. This is, after all, the reason that console makers make consoles in the first place. To sell software...
| kn said: Ok, so I'm not into signatures, but some Xbox FanPerson needs to create a signature that tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6 million sellers with the list. That would be a cool sig. It does appear the 360 sells alot of software. A non-biased might consider both the PS3 and 360 million sellers in their sig. This is, after all, the reason that console makers make consoles in the first place. To sell software... |
I would, but I don't hardly have the space:
Maybe next year... its something that would be cool to have.
Tease.
I was gonna post this, but I saw Battlefield was about 12k short of a million. But I just remembered that Ninja Gaiden 2 sold a million and it's not on the list, so I guess it's ok. Congrats to all the developers.


