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frybread on 23 January 2009

It has me worried for The Conduit's sales.



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thekitchensink on 23 January 2009

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scottie on 23 January 2009
frybread said:

 

What happened?!?

 

 

What happened is your maths, whilst correct, is hardly valid.

 

First of all, Wii games sell better over time. It is pretty much guarrenteed at this stage that the Wii version will end up higher than 12%

 

More importantly, you're using an invalid comparison. The right way of looking at it is

CoD3 sold 0.63 million

CoD5 has sold 0.6 million so far, and should eventually hit a million, minimum.

Therefore, the Wii's FPS userbase is increasing



Tecmo on 23 January 2009
cura said:
the wii is the wrong console for FPS. oh well...

 

i really hope this is a joke. the wii should be the main cosole for fps. The control scheme is the best that has happened to fps.



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Khuutra on 23 January 2009
frybread said:
It has me worried for The Conduit's sales.

Are you being sincere or intentionally ironic?



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outlawauron on 23 January 2009
scottie said:
frybread said:

 

What happened?!?

 

What happened is your maths, whilst correct, is hardly valid.

 

First of all, Wii games sell better over time. It is pretty much guarrenteed at this stage that the Wii version will end up higher than 12%

 

More importantly, you're using an invalid comparison. The right way of looking at it is

CoD3 sold 0.63 million

CoD5 has sold 0.6 million so far, and should eventually hit a million, minimum.

Therefore, the Wii's FPS userbase is increasing

Just not at rate that the PS3 and 360's FPS userbase is increasing?



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hentai_11 on 23 January 2009
outlawauron said:
scottie said:
frybread said:

 

What happened?!?

 

What happened is your maths, whilst correct, is hardly valid.

 

First of all, Wii games sell better over time. It is pretty much guarrenteed at this stage that the Wii version will end up higher than 12%

 

More importantly, you're using an invalid comparison. The right way of looking at it is

CoD3 sold 0.63 million

CoD5 has sold 0.6 million so far, and should eventually hit a million, minimum.

Therefore, the Wii's FPS userbase is increasing

Just not at rate that the PS3 and 360's FPS userbase is increasing?

 

 Exactly. And, if you check the FPS, which were released in the past, then you might know why ... (Wii FPS-userbase can't increase, if there are nearly no FPS on the system ...)



bigjon on 23 January 2009

If anything, the Wii is gaining them, as you just pointed out COD3 sold 600k over 2 years, CODWaW has sold 600 (or more...) in just about 2 months.

Also with the Conduit coming out, I am sure more people are going to be willing to try FPS controls out on the Wii.



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scottie on 23 January 2009
outlawauron said:
scottie said:
frybread said:

 

What happened?!?

 

What happened is your maths, whilst correct, is hardly valid.

 

First of all, Wii games sell better over time. It is pretty much guarrenteed at this stage that the Wii version will end up higher than 12%

 

More importantly, you're using an invalid comparison. The right way of looking at it is

CoD3 sold 0.63 million

CoD5 has sold 0.6 million so far, and should eventually hit a million, minimum.

Therefore, the Wii's FPS userbase is increasing

Just not at rate that the PS3 and 360's FPS userbase is increasing?

 

Hmm, I would want to see a full report detailing the total number of FPS games released on each console per quarter, and the sales of each before I can comment on that.

 

It seems to me like at the start of the gen, very few FPS games came to the Wii. Nowadays most of them are. So even if they don't have as big an increase in sales per game, the Wii FPS sales could still be rising at a comparable or higher rate than the PS360



YesWiiCan on 23 January 2009

I think the Wii has more FPS fans but it's just the games that come out for it. If they actually released an awesome game more people would buy it.