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TheBigFatJ on 18 August 2008
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HappySqurriel said:
Obliterator1700 said: 

 

You missed the point, your asking why it sells more sw then ps3? I answered that...It's like asking what sells more Dvd movies or Blue-Rar movies? The answer is quite obvious. I never tried to prove you wrong, rather that its a ridiculous question to ask is been why I answered with, well, lets see here... If you look closely at what he said in his second sentence you would have known that his addressing it on his point of view, not everyones.

 

Well, I think you missed Soriku's point ...

Diomedes1976 has claimed (on several occasions) that a large percentage of Wii owners do not actually play the Wii systems they bought, and that they're only collecting dust; I don't remember if it was him, but in the past there have also been countless posters who then claimed that the people who do use their Wiis are only playing Wii Sports.

If there is a large number of Wii owners who don't play Wii games then the userbase advantage of the Wii shouldn't translate into a software sales advantage; for the most part the Wii sells a similar ammount of software per system to the PS3/XBox 360 which means that the ratio of Wii owners who bought their Wii as a 'Novelty' is similar to the ratio of PS3/XBox 360 owners who bought their system as a 'Novelty'.

 

Yes, I'd say this is generally true.  If you search craigslist for systems, there are a lot of people who say they're selling a system because they're bored of it.  There are a lot of 360 owners and a lot of Wii owners who say the same thing.  The big difference is that the Wii owners are selling for more than retail still.

The fact is that the Wii is selling a lot of software despite the packed game.  If you have a free game, especially something with as much life as Wii Sports, that means you're less likely to buy an extra game.  Despite this, the Wii is selling a lot of software and as the system ages it seems the attatch ratio continues to improve as you'd expect.