Did a search, couldn't find anything. Lock if old.
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/n...t-selling-on-wii-is-a-false-assumption/?biz=1
And here we go again. Yes, the chart again tells us that Wii software sells, but this is with the inclusion of first party titles. Again, Nintendo talks about 19 titles passing the 400.000 only in America. If Nintendo would be so nice, just release the nineteen titles who sold 400k plus. And of course a third party chart.
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http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/n...t-selling-on-wii-is-a-false-assumption/?biz=1
And here we go again. Yes, the chart again tells us that Wii software sells, but this is with the inclusion of first party titles. Again, Nintendo talks about 19 titles passing the 400.000 only in America. If Nintendo would be so nice, just release the nineteen titles who sold 400k plus. And of course a third party chart.
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NPD: Wii Third-Party Games Really Do Sell
We now bring you the third-party only chart we promised in addition to data and commentary from NPD. Bottom line: Wii third-party games did indeed outsell the competition.
We recently posted a story discussing the state of third-party software sales on Wii, which included a chart from Nintendo that inconveniently also lumped in first-party sales. Well, now we've obtained the proper third-party only sales chart (see below), which does bear out what Nintendo of America has been telling us all along: games from third parties are selling on the Wii.
In fact, when GameDaily BIZ contacted The NPD Group for more data, we discovered that for the first 20 months on the market for each console the Wii comparatively sold several million more units of third-party software in the U.S. than either the Xbox 360 or PS3. More specifically, the Wii sold 33 million units of third-party software in its first 20 months, while the Xbox 360 sold 29 million units and the PS3 sold 20 million units.
"I actually think that given the number of comments made from industry executives at E3 (or thereabouts) about how they didn't put enough resources against development of Wii games that the industry has realized that the old adage of 'only first-party games sell on Nintendo systems' is absolutely incorrect. I think you're right that the data will cause a few eyebrows to lift," NPD industry analyst Anita Frazier commented.
So where does the perception that third-party games don't sell on Wii come from? Most likely it stems from the respective sales ratios for the three consoles. While third-party software sales comprise well over 80 percent of total game sales on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, on the Wii that number dips all the way down to 56 percent. On the whole, however, because total Wii software sales are so high, even 50-something percent of a huge chunk yields a larger total for third-party sales. But there's still no doubt that Nintendo's incredible first-party success leaves a smaller part of the Wii software market for third parties to fight over. The key, however, as Nintendo has said, is to expand that market so all can benefit. So far, so good.
