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nuckles87 on 09 May 2019
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curl-6 said:
h2ohno said:
There are a lot of myths about the Wii, that it just fizzled out and had a short lifespan when it was the first home console from Nintendo to go over 5 years since the SNES and that people only played Wii Sports and it otherwise gathered dust when it had a higher attach ratio than any Nintendo system - home console and handheld - save for the Gamecube which had a slightly higher attach rate.

Yeah, there were a lot of myths invented to try and discredit the Wii's success.

The "people bought only bought it for Wii Sports/Fit, played for a weekend, then never touched it again" is one of the most absurd. According to Nintendo's own internal data, the Wii has a software to hardware ratio of 9:1, so on average a Wii owner had 9 games for it. It's attach ratio is actually higher than the N64, which was 7:1.

So the average Wii owner bought more games than the average N64 owner.

I hadn’t heard about the attach ratio being THAT high, but yeah...it’s not like Wii software didn’t sell. Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros, and Wii Sports Resort remain some of the best selling games, period.

And on top of that, the Wii remained the top selling console for most of its life. It did peak early, but something that was a top selling console for four years and sold over 100 million in six was hardly a “fad”.