Legend11 said:
KylieDog said:
theprof00 said:
KylieDog said:
No because something not for sale isn't magically a sale when packaged with something else, it is just a freebie. Like saying HOME has sold 19m+ copies...no, it hasn't. |
There are a so many games that come bundled, in a package deal, given as freebies at conventions, have gamestop trade-in extra deals and so forth that in order to make sense of anything one would have to either remove those games from the equation, or simply allow them.
Then how does one go about saying whether mario kart comes free with a wheel?
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Those games are actually sold, as in people can go to a store and buy one. When they buy a bundle, they are buying the console and buying a game at the same time. They can chose to not buy that bundle and buying a different bundle instead, thus purchasing a different game. This does not apply to Wii Sports, the game isn't sold alone where it is bundled, so getting Wii Sports with the console is just part of the Wii sale.
"Then how does one go about saying whether mario kart comes free with a wheel?"
Because the wheel is sold alone, and costs less than MK + wheel combined. There is extra cost there which is the game.
...and because I know someone will reply to that and say "Wii is cheaper in Japan without Wii sports, so we ARE paying for it" I'll just pre-emptively kill that argument and say the the Wii in the US is cheaper than the UK, so going by that logic it isn't a sale in the US either. Difference in pricing in different regions is a weak argument full of holes, like I have just shown.
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If games bundled count then why aren't games like Minesweeper and Solitaire counted? All the versions of Windows that have sold to date put those games' sales in the hundreds of millions.
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Personally, I see it like this:
Would you or any average Joe buy Windows for Solitaire and Minesweeper? Sure, there are the occasional people that might think having Solitaire is cool but the *vast* majority of people aren't buying Windows because they want Solitaire or even want a gaming machine.
Now, would you buy a Wii because you want to play Wii Sports and other Wii games? Yes, a very large amount of people will buy a Wii because they want Wii sports and everyone that buys a Wii buys it to play games.
That's my own personal view, don't really give a crap if people say I'm wrong or whatever (meaning you can try to argue with me but I'm not gonna argue back).
