Then they'd have 1 game that could break 25%.  Wii has 4, and one costs $90 during a global financial crisis.

We can spin it back and forth by picking random percentage points to be our goalpost, but at the end of the generation these numbers will always favor the smaller userbases and still mean absolutely nothing.

I actually expected this to be the other way -- with the Wii having more games with a higher penetration level when I first started the analysis.

It also says a lot about relative vs. absolute goal posts. It is harder to have a 5% seller or 10% seller on a 43M install base because you must have more sales to reach those levels.

What this does show is that games may be destined to sell at a certain level regardless of install base. (I am thinking here of mid-level games, movie tie-ins, and the like).

Mike from Morgantown