My friend Henka has been telling me that games sell better on consols. I have taken his word for it, figuring that he probably got his facts all gathered before he said anything about it.
Today he posted the source of this info.
There is some conclusions I can draw from this picture. The first is that only two platforms beat the PC ever. It was PS2 in Q3 Fiscal year 2008, and the Xbox360 in Q2-Q4 FY2008.
Now the reasons for this, I cannot know. I have only kept myself updated on two games lately; Sims and Spore. I have no idea what awesomeness they made on the 360 that made everyone send EA their money. Maybe I should look into it, but then again I don’t have a 360, and I don’t think I need one…
The second conclusion is that for the most part, PC beats all other platforms, income-wise. No real shock to me. Everybody has one, unlike the various consols that you can’t update to work with new games. That is why I am allways hesitant to buy any consol. You can’t know beforehand how many great games will be made for that particular machine, and you can’t mix and match…
Third: with those sad numbers I can’t really expect any new games for my wonderful gamecube. =( But I didn’t anyway. Can you use a GC-pad for the wii? Because they fit my hands so well… =)
Fourth: With those sad numbers, is it even worth it to buy a wii? Maybe they will stop making games for it real soon?
Anyways, saying that games sell better on consol than on PC… well that might still be true if you talk about scertain releases and during some limitied timeperiod, but you really can’t make that conclusion from these numbers, so I will not draw any sort of conclusion about it.
And comparisons between the total consol-numbers and PC-numbers is just not relevant to anything. I mean, they are different machines with different technology. It’s not like the work effort to make a game for all the consols is the same as making the same game for just PC, is it?
Also remember that those figures is only EA games, so a specific console could do much better than you believe from just those numbers.
Wii takes both the gamecube discs (so all GC games work on wii) and the controllers can even be used. the wii has a port for 4 controllers. So if you get a Wii, you keep your old games and get the new ones aswell.
wii is special, many games is sold by nintendo and not by EA, for instance all mario games. But beware, wii has the highest percentage of “showelware” games (based on games with a rating of 6/10 or lower, i think. there was some place with the numbers on), xbox 360 comes 2nd place. So many games on wii are crap but alot of em are good 😛
Soo save some cash and get a wii if you like those sort of games, the controller interface is realy nice and mario cart is nice 😛
And guitar hero is THE KICKASS on wii 🙂
The Wii is a good, solid purchase. What that chart doesn’t show is that the Wii in it’s first six months sold TWICE as many units as the Xbox 360 – despite the fact that the 360 had more than a year and a half head-start on it.
Such a huge base of consoles will not mean a quick demise of the Wii. Maybe the owners are simply content with playing Wii Sports (the game that comes with the console)?
Can’t find a neat source for this claim though, but I know I’ve read it several times.
wii has sold a lot but the ratio of showelware games for Wii is large and thus many people stay with the basic games. Wii has been said to be a 1.5 console. And there is a lot of stuff Nintendo has done work, for instance friend codes. Wtf is that about? A unique code you need to get from your friend to even ADD him. No search or add friends from a game or stuff. No, you need a FRIENDCODE (so to even talk to a new friend you need to contact each other on MSN or phone to swap codes).
As well wii only comes with wireless (but you can get lan with a USB dongle) and the controllers are just good for those few games, for all other games you will need a gamepad (classic) or gamecube controller. And forget about using it for anything else, no DVD playback, no media playback, no dlc and nothing that makes a “next generation” console worth it in the long run.
Gamecube didn’t sell that good either wich is one reason why EA has such low numbers on it.
but many friends i have that has bought the wii has gotten tired on it after the new controller interface has lost its “wow”, it’s mainly a party console, and in the meantime it gathers dust.
If you are intrested in numbers for sold consoles, 3rd party titles and diffrence between regions (ie, 360 sells realy bad in japan), go to http://vgchartz.com
and my source for showelware statistics is here:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/05/the_wii_has_many_many_crummy_games-2.html
FUCK THIS!!! ARGHHH..
Wii is good, but has the highest number of bad games (rating 60% or less), source: http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/05/the_wii_has_many_many_crummy_games-2.html
and conserning hardware sales, go to http://vgchartz.com/ and check the sales number for hardware. On the forums there is even more stats to find. Remember to compared on the relevant territories, there is a hughe diffrence between europe, us and japan.
here is some intresting reading: http://gamefunk.net/?p=57 ” Wii Exposed: The Secret that Nintendo Tries to Ignore “
YOY % change is year over year change. Intresting numbers to look at. just fyi 😛
wonder if i wrote it?
anyway, EA is considiered a 2nd or 3rd party wich nintendo is 1st party. Wii has showelware problems and nintendo stands for most of the good games, ie all mario games and that dont show on this chart
Ouhch.. i must have been drunk. Apperantly some of my comments didnt come (thats why i got irritated, lol).
Bah! PARTY TONIGHT! 😛