morpheusx said:
LOL its so true, I have had my Wii since launch and I think we have 10 (retail) games. Controllers though, we have 4 Wii-Motes, 2 Nunchucks, 1 Balance Board, 1 DDR Pad, 4 Gamecube Controllers (although 2 of these I already owned). How do you classify the other attachments where you insert the Wii-mote into it like the racing wheel, gun accessory, or the guitar. |
Attachments or peripherals yes... but not controllers. A controller has to be able to work on it's own.
Wii remote, Balance Board and arguably the Classic controller (it only relies on the remote for power) are controllers.
Nunchuck, WM+ are not.
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Even so, the attach ratio for controllers is probably higher than any previous console yes, but I doubt it is higher than the ratio for games (though it could be true for attachements/peripherals depending on if you add plastic shells) The game ratio is 7.3 games per console (going by shipped figures) Even if every single Wii owner has 4 Wii remotes, we know less than half have a balance board, so that makes it 4.5, and I highly doubt the Classic controller ratio even is much higher than 0.5 per Wii owner.
I believe I shall do some guesswork (just for fun, this is no longer part of my reply to anyone in particular)
CONTROLLERS
Wii remote ~~ 2.70 per console
Balance Board ~~ 0.41 (no need to guess that one)
Classic ~~ 0.60
Dance mats ~~ 0.02
Microphones ~~ 0.02
+ GC bought specifically for Wii ~~ 0.09
Total = ~~ 3.84 attach ratio
ATTACHMENTS (useful ones)
Nunchuck ~~ 1.90
Motion Plus ~~ 0.05
Guitar ~~ 0.12 (estimated 6 million guitars)
errrm... can anyone name any more that actually do something?
ATTACHMENTS (plastic shells)
Wheel ~~ 0.60 (0.3 is for Mario Kart alone, I guess in general people have bought an extra 1 wheel)
zapper ~~ 0.05
3rd party wheels ~~ 0.10
3rd party guns ~~ 0.07
Other junk ~~ 0.20 (higher simply because this junk is usually sold in packs of 5-10 shells as it is)
PERIPHERALS (other)
Wii Speak ~~ 0.04 (which is about 2 million of them... I could be a bit high here)
3rd party sensor bars ~~ 0.01 (and that is still probably too high... as it works out about 500,000)
3rd party charge systems ~~ 0.05
OTHER (more junk like console stands)
~~ 0.1
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So for the proper controllers the ratio is probably about, or less than 4 per console... including nunchuck/guitar etc it is probably still only about 6 per console (still less than the number of games)
Obviously all these are rough guesses, so feel free to disagree with me on remote/nunchuck ratios... but I don't think I will be far off.
