Buying Games in Bulk?

[Tispower]

mrstickball said:


So basically, my synopsis is that the Wii attach ratios are not very good in either country, not entirely because of the actual ratio, but lack of increase despite games coming out. The US ratio is acceptable, but hasn't really increased in 9 months. Thats a huge problem. What happens when December comes around? Will consumers stay @ 4.0, and only buy a few games, while the PS3 attach ratio keeps increasing, and hits 4.5 or higher for actual full-priced games, and the X360 hits 6.5, or even 7.0 at the end of this year? With scenarios like that, it makes me question the ability for the Wii to dominate this generation - even if hardware does gangbusters, 3rd parties will realize consumers don't want the software like the fanbase of the PS3/X360.

If you have the data to back that up, that seems like a rather large problem. I do think that the audience that the Wii is aimed at is going to have a detrimental effect on software sales. I mean who is really going to buy Wii Sports 2? I mean the extremely casual gamers who are buying the Wii, aren't going to buy loads of versions of cooking mama etc. I just can't imagine many casual people picking up the latest Resident Evil or Metroid. That's not to say they won't sell, just won't sell well in comparison to the user base.

That's my 2 cents anyway.