13.17 Million Wii’s Sold World-Wide........VG Chartz need to keep up

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Neos said:

gorgepir said:
But why did they give a software to hardware ratio? Did they give this ratio for software shipped vs hardware shipped or software sold vs hardware shipped? Could anyone explain this?

simple, they calculate the shipped hardware number with the shipped software

This seems most likely to me. They wouldn't have exact numbers for sold software either - its the same problem. Even the tracking agencies will have trouble real numbers of all software sold.

Ultimately, Nintendo is paid by retailers - not consumers. And this is based on order/shipped software.

Retailers (sometimes) have the option of returning some boxed software - but I doubt it would happen often to Ninty.