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scottie on 21 March 2009
KillerMan said:
Soriku said:
How many million sellers on the PS3 and 360?

 

X360: 63 and PS3: 28. And to correct op, Wii has 41 million sellers so it is nearer 40 than 50...

 

@ anyone who disagreed with KillerMan - he is technically correct.

 

'Almost has' and 'has almost' mean two completely different things

 

If a console has 0 million sellers, but 50 games that have sold 0.99 million, and each is selling 20k a week, then this console almost has 50 million sellers.

 

If a console has 49 million sellers (ie the N64 according to VGChartz), yet there is unlikely to be another million seller in its lifetime, then it has almost 50 million sellers.

 

So it is true that the Wii almost has 50 million sellers, but the OP was actually wrong when he stated that the Wii has almost 50 million sellers

 

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MontanaHatchet on 21 March 2009

Scottie, you just made my thoughts trip over themselves. Well done.

Anyways, 50 is not impressive in the slightest. Let's wait for the Wii's million seller list to truly start going before making any threads.



 

 

trestres on 21 March 2009

Wii needs more compelling software for its list to increase. IMO it's a miracle that so many games have sold this much. After all the mega hits that the HD consoles are getting, the Wii has a respectable number of milllion sellers. Plus it's been a long while since Nintendo released first party software.

Gonna be difficult for the Wii to overtake the 360 if 3rd party devs keep on making half assed efforts. Majority of them won't be huge sellers, and considering the userbase, each third party should have at least a couple huge hits coming up for the Wii by now, but reality tells us that they are going the easy route. The HD consoles keep on getting hit after hit, the Wii, not so much- Gets good games, but none as mainstream as the ones the HD consoles are getting.



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Snake612 on 21 March 2009

Most of the games that sold more than a million worldwide are first party titles. I think when the release the Conduit, they will finally have a top selling third party title. I have huge expectations for that game.



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griffinA on 21 March 2009

The problem comes from Western third-parties. While the upcoming japanese games that are coming in 2009 will be good quality-wise they're too niche to sell. So the wii needs some decent games that are advertised from western devs to make up that difference.



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mike_intellivision on 21 March 2009

While the records from the past generations are incomplete, it is interesting that the Wii is about the edge the SNES in two areas.

The shipped number of consoles has for the Wii recently topped the number shipped for the Super Nintendo -- meaning the install base will soon be greater.

And if predictions hold up, in a couple of weeks, it will have more "million sellers" according to the data on VGC. (SNES had 48).

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Khuutra on 21 March 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
Scottie, you just made my thoughts trip over themselves. Well done.

Anyways, 50 is not impressive in the slightest. Let's wait for the Wii's million seller list to truly start going before making any threads.

Well, it would be passing up the SNES, which is not shabby.



point x on 22 March 2009

X360: 63 with less user base..what is the point? ..



 

 

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atma998 on 22 March 2009
point x said:
X360: 63 with less user base..what is the point? ..

 

 X360 was released 1 year before the Wii that's why.



Rhonin the wizard on 22 March 2009
Snake612 said:
Most of the games that sold more than a million worldwide are first party titles. I think when the release the Conduit, they will finally have a top selling third party title. I have huge expectations for that game.

Only 17 of the Wii's 41 million sellers are published by Nintendo, that means the rest, 24, are from third parties. So you are wrong, most Wii million sellers are from third parties.