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360 ps3 or wii?

i ask this question because i was listening to hiphopgamer on thebitbag.com, and he said in his latest show that the wii has no online and that its shot. he talks a lot about videogame sales and if he is to say the wii has no online, he is basically saying that theyre not making any money off of their online. between the  8 or 9 consoles that they have on the virtual console, plus all original new games on wii ware, it seems like they HAVE to at least be beating the ps3 with online revenue. the only console i think that would be making the most money off of their online (just speculation) would have to be the 360, and thats only because they make you pay for it.

 

anyways, what do you guys think? do you think vg chartz should have sales for each company's online?



Total Championships: Nintendo - 4, Sony - 2, Atari - 1, Microsoft - 0, Sega - 0

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Wii probably makes a lot on the old SNES and NES games.



Xbox 360!

Movies, Games/Content, Live Gold.

They've had over a Billion spent on the former two and who knows how much on the latter.



Tease.

I would expect that Microsoft has probably made the most money from online services so far because it has been out for a year earlier and they charge money to play games online ...

I suspect that Nintendo is probably second due to their much larger userbase and that they have far more content for people to buy ... I wouldn't be that surprised to find out that Nintendo was gaining ground on the XBox 360 due to these factors.



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Nintendo
Sony

in that order.



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I would say Nintendo if you are just basing it off of game sales and not what they charge for the service (xbox live). Look at the VC/WW sales they are freaking crazy. Nintendo is making a ton of money from all their old hits.



Microsoft has had their video service since fall 2006, has the largest online user base, has netflix with gold account and easily has the mose arcade games and community games. No contest.



Maybe the Wii due to Virtual Console.



microsoft by a long shot



Let's have a look.

 

Revenue wise:

 

Top 20 WW games for the week ending 13th Nov 08 (their total, not the top 20)

31M

 

Same for Virtual console:

77M

 

Total Wii:

108M

 

But that number is incomplete. Actual is probably in the 130-140M range.

 

XBLA:

For the 176 games, 191.8M

 

 

And considering 15M live users pay 4 dollars a month.... Well, let's just say that stacks up quickly.

 

Including live fees, MS makes hell of a lot more than the other two.

 

Excluding live fees, Ps3 + Wii total out more than the Wii, but the overall market share is kinda like the real one (but with Wii and X360 swapping places).

 

 



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

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