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curl-6 said:

Wii's attach rate is about 7. If everyone just played it for a month then abandoned it, the attach rate would be 2.

If you have solid figures to back this up, then by all means post them.



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lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Wii's attach rate is about 7. If everyone just played it for a month then abandoned it, the attach rate would be 2.

If you have solid figures to back this up, then by all means post them.

From this week's VGChartz numbers: 

Wii software total: 866,987,924

Wii hardware total: 100,686,742

Take away Wii Sports, and you have 7.6 games per Wii console.



curl-6 said:
lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Wii's attach rate is about 7. If everyone just played it for a month then abandoned it, the attach rate would be 2.

If you have solid figures to back this up, then by all means post them.

From this week's VGChartz numbers: 

Wii software total: 866,987,924

Wii hardware total: 100,686,742

Take away Wii Sports, and you have 7.6 games per Wii console.

a large portion of the top selling wii games were heavilly bundled, wii sports resort, wii fit, as was wii play which saw a large portion of its sale as a result of the additional controller provided in the box. then taking in to account people buying new consoles to replace broken ones or to buy into new bundles, realistically youre looking at a 5.8 - 6.8 attach rate.

same goes for ps3 and 360 obviously, though since theyre still selling well and receiving solid new releases its anyones guess what their attach rates will end up at.

in any case, all attach rate tells us is that at some point or another the console sold x amount of games per unit, that number could have been a lot higher and progressively reduced as further units sold, but attach rate would not show that unless monitored consistently.

attach rate, therefor, is not proof that large numbers of owners are still using it, just proof that at one point or another they bought games, be it one or two or many.



Figgycal said:
There's a ton of Wii U apologists as well. I frankly don't get where they're coming from.

Very true.

WiiU and Vita get the most hate because their sales make them easy targets for the trolls on either side.



Without owning one I can't say, but I can say that the WiiU in it's current state is not very appealing to me. I will buy one but not until SSB comes out.



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curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:

Viltgance said:

 Is it because the 100 million people that bought the original Wii feel ripped off because it sat on their shelves most of its lifespan? 

The "everyone bought a Wii, played it once, then it gathered dust" is a myth, as evidenced by its continuing software sales over a year after its replacement.

the software sales for Wii are nothing to be proud of, take away the bundled games, hell even with the bundled games and it doesnt reach the the same sales as either 360 or PS3 and thats with a larget install base.

Nice strawman. People are still buying games for it well after its replacement. That shows that the idea every Wii was used for a month then abandoned is a fallacy.


nice rebuttal, the sales show that people have lost interest in the Wii by a lot. People are buying games well after its replacement? how much people? what kind of games? how often? Answer these questions. People are buying games for PS3 and 360 and will continue to do so and their replacements are out, whats your point? For a system that was that popular and sold that much, it should be selling more software, period



LiquorandGunFun said:
I think its more frustration with how poorly the wiiu is marketed and handled by piss poor management. I know thats apart of mine. Its set as a second console even with 7th gen systems.

is that really a bad thing? I would argue that WIi was a 2nd console for at least half of the userbase



Because during the days of the wii people were predicting it to pass ps2, and ps3 to never pass gamecube. Time to play for those sins. There's still a ton of people on here that think wii u will be the best selling console in 2014 still.



Metallicube said:

Mainly because the hardcore are a simple minded bunch who automatically assume less sales = worse console.. Wii U is selling the worst, therefore it IS the worst.

In hardcore land, sales always = quality

Oh, except when it comes to the Wii.. That console just sold because of the retarded cazuals, so it like, doesn't count.. or something

I really don't know.. I get massive headaches when I try to comprehend the sheer stupidity of hardcore logic.

do you actually believe that horseshit of a post?



Max King of the Wild said:
Metallicube said:

Mainly because the hardcore are a simple minded bunch who automatically assume less sales = worse console.. Wii U is selling the worst, therefore it IS the worst.

In hardcore land, sales always = quality

Oh, except when it comes to the Wii.. That console just sold because of the retarded cazuals, so it like, doesn't count.. or something

I really don't know.. I get massive headaches when I try to comprehend the sheer stupidity of hardcore logic.

do you actually believe that horseshit of a post?

Just the fact that the audiende he is talking about mainly plays a generic shooting game were the aiming is automatic, speaks for their credibility. And hardcoreness.

I much prefer calling them the dudebros. Much more appropriate.