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This Ain't A Console War, It's a Genocide (Sales Figures! Ooooh!)
Ozymandias:
As for PC games selling more than console games-
Find the game that sold the most copies on this list
(Here's a hint: it's not in the PC section)
TheFuriousWombat:
Ok, but that's because it's Mario. C'mon man, what's going to beat Mario?? If you look at the PC section though it seems like a lot of games on there have higher numbers than the non-Mario (and Pokemon) games on consoles.
Ozymandias:
Mario and Pokemon beat out The Sims (which is hardly 'professional gaming...'), but then there's a huuuuuge gap between the Sims and Starcraft that contains more Mario, Pokemon, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, and Nintendogs.
By the time you get to Half-Life 1, as this fine gentleman keeps hyping, you've passed the entire top 20 best selling console games of all time.
Also, it's worth a look up at Halo 2's or Goldeneye's sales. Now look at Half-Life 1's.
8 million for both! Shocking proof that PC gaming is kicking console gaming's ass.
ackblom12:
There's also the sales figures for earlier this year.
Consoles - $4.8 Billion (not sure if this includes rentals)
Handhelds - $1.7 Billion (not sure if this includes rentals)
PC - $970 Million (not including some sales, or subscriptions to games like Gametap. It is including the sales of Burning Crusade.)
That, and there has been no reason for the last generation or so for there to be anything but a graphical difference between the PC and console games gameplay wise. Especially now with the Wii-Mote making more of a simulation of the Mouse & Keyboard.
Edit: Forgot to post a link to one of several articles discussing the sales. Stuff
Storm Rider:
Nintendo just released some statistics about their year to date now that the June NPD figures are out and we're effectively at the halfway point. I cherry-picked a couple of the good ones:
--For the first half of 2007, Nintendo represents nearly 70 percent of the industry growth in the United States and Canada combined.
--In June alone, Nintendo has six of the top 10 best-selling games in the United States, including the top four: Mario Party® 8 and Wii Play™ for Wii, and Pokémon® Diamond and Pokémon® Pearl for Nintendo DS.
--Of the top 30 best-selling games in the United States for all of 2007, half are for Nintendo systems.
All the hardcore fanboys keep saying that the Wii is just a fad and that its huge sales will die off soon, but with Microsoft and Sony bleeding money left and right, if Nintendo can keep making modest profits on the strength of their first-party games (which they always have, even in the Gamecube days), then even if Microsoft and Sony come back and pass them in the later years of the generation, hasn't Nintendo still won in the long run?
Anyway, the biggest reason console wars are stupid (besides that there's no reason all 3 can't coexist) is that no console is perfect and if you're acting like any one hardware maker can do no wrong you're an idiot. Sony obviously has the utter lack of top-tier software and the outrageous price point, but Microsoft has the horrendous hardware failure problem, and Nintendo, no matter their strengths, are still producing games with last-gen graphics and dragging their feet on online support.
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