Xbox 360 has 50 million sellers, 19 2 million sellers!

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headshot91 on 27 November 2008

wow i didnt realise how well gh3 sold...

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kn on 28 November 2008

MontanaHatchet said:

Esa-Petteri said:

kn said:

shio said:

Squilliam said:

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shio said:
It's certainly impressive for a console, but I'm more impressed by the Wii, which is selling even more software than 360.

If you take out the bundled games for both consoles, 360 wins

Solitaire outsold the Wiis whole library. I don't dare think how many times over.

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!

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.

I don't really find Wii software sales that impressive... If you were to make take out Wii Play or at least set it to the amount that Wii Play sold, the 360 is still outselling it in total software units shipped. Figure in the significantly higher cost of software and the total dollars generated from software sales are higher on the 360 for certain. Assuming profit margins are roughly the same, 360 games are making developers more dollars. The Wii's install base is approaching double that of the 360 at this point and should be trouncing the 360 in software sales...

I own a Wii and it is a fun console, but... I'm sorry, Wii Sports and Wii Play don't count as real game sales. One is a pack in and the other is a wiimote with a $10 game. If you take those out and then take out some percentage of the bundled 360 games like Marvel and Forza, the 360 is still selling a hell of a lot more software than the Wii.

If I were a third party and was trying to figure out where the money is, it is on the 360... The bottom line is that if the game is good, it will sell well on the 360.

Now don't say stuff like that. You are forgetting that developing a hd-title costs more than 40 million and wii development is almost free. So wii titles don't have to sell more than 100k to make profit!

If you're going to pull out 3 figures that are very hard to believe, you should at least have a source or two to back them up. I can already tell that all 3 of them are way off.

Montana -- I'm not following. Was that directed at me or Esa? My point is just that I'm not that impressed by Wii software sales. I would expect, given the install base, that Wii software sales would be absolutely destroying 360 software sales but that just isn't happening -- yet. I bougt a Wii (and therefore wiisports). I bought wiiplay because I needed another remote. I don't consider either of those software sales. I know VGC does, but in the bigger picture, it is clear to third parties that the 360 is a great place to sell software (if the title is not shovelware).

Obviously, as the Wii install base continues to grow, it will attract 3rd party developers since there will be a larger install base coupled with lower development costs. That's probably going to be a long-term formula that attracts 3rd party devs and ultimately builds a vast library of million+ sellers...

Let me also state the obvious... Nintendo has 13 of the top 20 million+ sellers and 8 out of the top 10. Microsoft published 5 out of the top 20 and 4 out of the top ten respectively...

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Khuutra on 28 November 2008

MontanaHatchet said:

If you're going to pull out 3 figures that are very hard to believe, you should at least have a source or two to back them up. I can already tell that all 3 of them are way off.

Might wanna recalibrate your intentional irony detector, my man.