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Khuutra on 25 December 2008
Oyvoyvoyv said:

The GTA franchise is the 3rd biggest (soon 4th) biggest franchise so far. Well, if you split up Mario, it could be 5th soon.

Anyway, it has sold 76M so far, and should be at over 85M by the end of the gen. Beating that is, quite simply, impossible.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2667

Sorry, had to do it.



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Oyvoyvoyv on 25 December 2008
Khuutra said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

The GTA franchise is the 3rd biggest (soon 4th) biggest franchise so far. Well, if you split up Mario, it could be 5th soon.

Anyway, it has sold 76M so far, and should be at over 85M by the end of the gen. Beating that is, quite simply, impossible.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2667

Sorry, had to do it.

 Oh, yeah, Wii Sports will make it.

My point was, Wii Fit can't... "Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchise" is what he claimed.



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

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Khuutra on 25 December 2008
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Khuutra said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

The GTA franchise is the 3rd biggest (soon 4th) biggest franchise so far. Well, if you split up Mario, it could be 5th soon.

Anyway, it has sold 76M so far, and should be at over 85M by the end of the gen. Beating that is, quite simply, impossible.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2667

Sorry, had to do it.

 Oh, yeah, Wii Sports will make it.

My point was, Wii Fit can't... "Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchise" is what he claimed.

Oh, I know, I was just poking fun at you. Wii Fit making even half of that is a fevered pipe dream at this point.

it will be interesting to see how much he's off by, though.



Oyvoyvoyv on 25 December 2008
Khuutra said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:
Khuutra said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

The GTA franchise is the 3rd biggest (soon 4th) biggest franchise so far. Well, if you split up Mario, it could be 5th soon.

Anyway, it has sold 76M so far, and should be at over 85M by the end of the gen. Beating that is, quite simply, impossible.

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2667

Sorry, had to do it.

 Oh, yeah, Wii Sports will make it.

My point was, Wii Fit can't... "Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchise" is what he claimed.

Oh, I know, I was just poking fun at you. Wii Fit making even half of that is a fevered pipe dream at this point.

it will be interesting to see how much he's off by, though.

100M!

 



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

Draven26 on 25 December 2008

Still too early to tell, however my best estimate would be no, there is only so many people that will buy it just for the "trendy fun thing to have" logic. The hardcore nintendo fans already have theirs for the most part and it doesnt have enough shooter games to appeal to most of the PS360 crowd. The PS2 had games for everyone, thats why it sold so much



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Khuutra on 25 December 2008
Draven26 said:
Still too early to tell, however my best estimate would be no, there is only so many people that will buy it just for the "trendy fun thing to have" logic. The hardcore nintendo fans already have theirs for the most part and it doesnt have enough shooter games to appeal to most of the PS360 crowd. The PS2 had games for everyone, thats why it sold so much

The Playstation 2, to the best of my knowledge, was not much of a shooter console either.

Shooters don't really determine the console race.



oxford-gamer on 25 December 2008
Snake said:

WRONG!!! Wii lifespan will not be longer than 4 years or so. So Wii won't even outsell a PS1 (101 milion) so what makes you think it could outsell PS2. You all seem to think that PS2 lifespan is over. PS2 still have 2 years to go, while Wii have 3 years to go and for those three years wii will sell 30 - 40 million systems. Talking about software GTA series still outsells any wii game. Looks like you can see the future like every Nintenod fanboy. Wii won the year 2007 and 2008 and it would probably win the year 2009 but wii wil LOSE in 2010 and in 2011 because in next 3 years Blu Ray and HD-TV will dominate.

this are all horribly put-together opinions, with the GTA one being a sad attempt to spin 1st party software. you won't last long posting like this.

 



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Draven26 on 25 December 2008

That was not my main point, my main point is that the PS2 had games for everyone whereas the Wii has very little in the first person market or any type of mature rated game for that matter, sure there are a few but nowhere near the amount as PS360 has. CoD4 may have passed the best selling FPS on the PS2 but there was far more PS2 to choose from as well



DaveD on 25 December 2008
Draven26 said:
That was not my main point, my main point is that the PS2 had games for everyone whereas the Wii has very little in the first person market or any type of mature rated game for that matter, sure there are a few but nowhere near the amount as PS360 has. CoD4 may have passed the best selling FPS on the PS2 but there was far more PS2 to choose from as well

 

Shooter, one genre. There are other genres out there...



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Draven26 on 25 December 2008

Again i am just using the shooter as an example, where are the action hack and slash games? where are the sand box games? The average person sees the Wii as either a childrens system or a gimmick, there are very few mature rated games available, very few decent ones anyways, i was using FPS as an example of something the Wii lacks.....and in case you havnt noticed FPS are the best sellers of the current gen