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Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPS
Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPS
FPS Source - August 10, 2007
Submitted by judge_khan (449) at 8:22PM PST on August 10, 2007
Out of the 137 games that the author has recorded and based on this study, (each title was placed within a genre that defines them), there are only 15 FPS titles and 8 TPS titles.
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3Laoldar posted on Xbox 360 (Xbox 360) at 3:58PM PST on August 11, 2007. RE: Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPS@trihunter,
Well, one could use the VGchartz worldwide million-sellers list as a lazy way of doing that :)
4 of the top 5 selling 360 games are shooters (GoW, CoD2, GRAW, R6:Vegas) accounting for over 10 million in sales. 7 of the top 10 are shooters (CoD3, LP, Crackdown). 21 titles have sold over 1 million copies worldwide and 10 of the 21 are shooters.
PS3 isn't a good comparison as only Motorstorm and Resistance are over 1 mil.
The Wii has 8 titles over 1 million with Red Steel being the only shooter.
How about the original X-Box?
Its top two selling games were Halo/Halo 2, which were the only shooters in the top 10.
Out of all listed million sellers, 12 out of 38 were shooters.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
3trihunter posted on Xbox 360 (Xbox 360) at 3:43PM PST on August 11, 2007. RE: Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPSI would prefer knowing the percentage of sales go to FPS's and TPS's, instead. Everyone can post a lot of low-selling games and shovel ware and call the system "diversified".
Sports also seemed like a strange place to put Madden games three times because of the year...
Madden 06
Madden 07
Madden 08
This list also includes games that haven't been released yet, like Two Worlds.[ Elite ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 286 ]bids
1Laoldar posted on Xbox 360 (Xbox 360) at 10:56AM PST on August 11, 2007. RE: Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPSI'm glad someone took the time/trouble to compile such a list. I'm surprised because I thought that number would be higher. However, it's interesting that the 360 still has the highest percentage...17%, while the PS3 is 13% and the Wii 6.5%.
Also, if you combine sports/racing/fying games the 360 is at 39%, PS3 50% (!) and Wii 26%.
What style of game is the Wii leading in? Party/puzzle. Something to consider.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
6judge_khan posted on Xbox 360 (Xbox 360) at 8:22PM PST on August 10, 2007. RE: Only 17% of Xbox 360 games are FPS
About Us - The simExchange is the video game stock market and the source
for video game sales forecasts.
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Percentage of sales wouldn't be entirely accurate either, as it gives you more of an insight into the Xbox 360 demographic, but we want to know about just the Xbox 360 (more specifically, Xbox 360 games). Just because a game is good doesn't mean it will sell well. Percentage of games that score above 75 on metacritic would be most accurate, in my opinion. Here we can see 96 games scored above 75 on metacritic. This advanced search on Metacritic shows that of those 96 games, 23 were first or third person shooters. That's 24%. It should be noted that those lists include downloadable games.
Doing the same thing for other consoles, Wii got 8.3% (16.7% if you include Zelda), PS3 got 21.4%, PS2 got 14.3% and the original Xbox got 23.1%.