Wii Has the Most Downloadable Games

Out of the Wii, the PS3 and the XBox 360, the Wii has the largest number of game titles available for download according to the staff of GamePro.

Sure, XBox has a greater number of original titles, but they’re more expensive and if you ask me, part of the draw of owning a Wii is having access to so many old classics again.

GamePro says in an article at PCWorld:

84 percent of downloadable 360 games have online functionality compared with 45 percent of PS3 titles and zero percent for Wii games.

Only 12 percent of downloadable games are original titles, says EEDAR, especially given Nintendo’s lopsided contribution of older games.

In terms of median game prices, PS3 titles are the cheapest at $5.99, followed by Virtual Console games at $6, and Xbox Live Arcade games at $10, the most expensive of the three. Furthermore, 80 percent of the downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 is free compared to just 29 percent on Xbox 360.

It would be nice if Nintendo would include some online playability with some old school NES games. It would be cool to play Contra with my brother who lives 12 hours away. He’d probably still steal my lives after he died though.