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Ail on 01 May 2009
Gamerace said:
It doesn't debunk the fact that Wii games do not have big openning week numbers (except main franchise Nintendo games) but sell well over time.

You are totally correct that certain titles are system sellers though - Wii Fit, Mario Kart, Halo 3, LBP, GTA IV will all sell to a certain percentage of new owners, week in and week out as they are a full or partial reason for the person to have bought that system.

Many Wii titles have had low 1st week numbers, actually increased week over week and then slowly dropped off again until they disappeared. Pinball Hall of Fame is one such title, Spyro, Nerf, and others all follow this trend.

Many are very slow burners - Mario Strikers, Mario Sluggers, Endless Ocean, Hanna Montana, Rayman Rabbids, Sonic etc. Where they debut relatively low and stay relatively low until they saturate their potential audience and then drop off but still make very good sales over the long haul.

Such titles are not effected by Wii hardware sales (much, some new owners will purchase them)

Actually I would say it highlight the difference between HD and Wii games.

HD consoles games need big opening weeks because hardware sales are not high enough to sustain them in the long run.

Wii games need high Wii unit sales because opening week sales are not enough....

 



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yanamaster on 01 May 2009

It can be applied to all the consoles but the Wii is the only one from the three to show such persistance in the matter. i don't hear about xbox and ps3 owners slowly buying up Virtua fighter 5 or quake wars while on the wii Endless ocean unexpectedly reached 1 million units sold (according to vgchartz. Not only that, call od duty 3 passed the platinum mark, Boogie and Bloom Blox ano more heroes is standing at 400k units sold, and these titles were all considered sale flops that would never sell much.re in their 900 k's and climbing steadily, de blob is over 600k right now, shucks even

Going further on, i have never seen any game on the hd twins that would constantly be in the top 5 or 10 for more than 2 months while the Wii has 3 to 4 such games. Not counting Wii sports naturally.



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 01 May 2009
Ail said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Though, I must wonder, does it really matter why the legs are there when they have been proven on many accounts to be superior to the legs shown on most other consoles?

 

Thats the point the legs are only superior because more Wii units are being sold every week....

 

First off, I can't really see that conclusion being drawn seeing as how legs of Wii games are very much superior to the other HD consoles (see the link Soriku posted). I mean, consider the opening weeks also. Are you saying that if a game has a pretty low opening week and then gets good LTD numbers (good example: Sonic and the Secret Rings), then the only ones buying it are new owners every week? None of the userbase from before bought it?

Second, even if you're right ... I repeat once more, does it really matter why the legs are there when they have been proven on many accounts to be superior to the legs shown on most other consoles?



Ail on 01 May 2009
Soriku said:

I find this analysis way better:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=68935

 

That analysis does not take weekly hardware sales into account at all and how it could influence software sales..



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

ctk495 on 01 May 2009

I´m surprise SMG and Mk are still going solid.



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ctk495 on 01 May 2009
11ht11 said:
wii games have legs

 

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outlawauron on 01 May 2009
11ht11 said:
wii games have legs

And so do PS3 and 360 games. As well as DS and PSP games.



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Ail on 01 May 2009
Soriku said:
Ail said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Though, I must wonder, does it really matter why the legs are there when they have been proven on many accounts to be superior to the legs shown on most other consoles?

 

Thats the point the legs are only superior because more Wii units are being sold every week....

 

 

In that case...the Wii really does have better legs than the HD consoles so you pretty much contradicted yourself.

There's been more cases of that than HD console games having long legs.

And it's not like Wii is going to suddenly stop selling, so...

I'm not sure what you mean by contradicting myself...

What is worrying is that outside of the 5-6 weeks period following a game release the size of the user base really doesn't have a big impact on how well a game will sell. It has some for sure but not a lot.

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

11ht11 on 01 May 2009
outlawauron said:
11ht11 said:
wii games have legs

And so do PS3 and 360 games. As well as DS and PSP games.

 

but wii games have sexy legs



outlawauron on 01 May 2009
11ht11 said:
outlawauron said:
11ht11 said:
wii games have legs

And so do PS3 and 360 games. As well as DS and PSP games.

but wii games have sexy legs

All systems have examples of sexy legs.



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