Why I don't believe in "System Sellers"

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tarheel91 said:

Grey Acumen said:
If you think about it. If there's a game you are absolutely GOING to buy, you tend to go out and get the console even before the game is out. There might be a small initial boost in sales for those that have been specifically waiting for the individual game, but that doesn't change the slope of the sell rate, it just creates a bump in it.

Definitely agree with that.  I think that can really be seen in Nintendo consoles.  People are extremely excited about the first party games that they know are invariably coming and purchase the console around launch even if the games out then aren't that great.  While the Wii had Zelda at launch, I'd have bought it on launch day even if it Zelda wouldn't be out for three more months.  I guess you could argue I had Wii Sports, but no one could imagine exactly how fun Wii sports was/is before they played it so it's not really a realisitic argument.

With Nintendo, its less about a specific game than the entire pantheon. There is a lot of overlap between fans of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Star Fox etc. Hell, you could almost consider "nintendo games" as a single franchise at this point.