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[Avinash_Tyagi]

WereKitten said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

WereKitten said:

Or instead of looking for examples on this week or that, you could have a look at the tie ratio and see that it's about the same of the PS3.

Slightly lower, actually, by an increasing amount - notwithstanding the fact that 0.8 out of 6.22 of the Wii's tie ratio is due to the bundling of Wii Sports.

And you should decide which point are you trying to push: that many Wii games are system sellers or that the Wii sells a lot of software? Because they're very different arguments, and the data you're pointing to proves neither.

Actually you're wrong on multiple points first off saying that the Wii's software is boosted by Wii sports forgets that people buy the Wii for Wii sports so in fact it supports my point that its software that sells the system and builds momentum, its not that Wii sports is boosted by being bundles with the wii its that the Wii is boosted by Wii sports.  Also saying that Wii doesn't have a lot of system sellers or alot of software being sold is false because Wii is the only console to have 20 million plus selling games this gen, even 360 has only one game over 10 million, Wii has 4 games over 10 million, 3 over 20 million, even PS2 didn't have a game over 20 million, and Wii is outpacing the PS2 in sales at the moment and will likely have a few more 10 to 20 plus million sellers before the gen is over before the gen is over, and as I have shown, even on weeks where Wii has had less consoles than the PS3 out it has sold more software, the reason for Wii having a smaller tie ratio is the weeks where Wii has sold a lot of consoles like during the holidays, where it routinely sells around a million plus, when its tie ratio drops off even though it still moves a ton of software, just not as much proportionately.

Please quote where I said that the Wii has no system sellers. Because I said that you're mixing up different issues and that pointing at this or that isolated week of software sales doesn't corroborate any of your points.

As for the tie ratio, I fail to see why a hardware sale that happens during the holidays should bring less software sales in -say- six months than one happening in march.

You may fail to see why, but it does happen, software tie ratio for the Wii in holiday weeks drops well below its 6.2+ overall tie ratio

Actually I'm only pointing to individual weeks because it would take waaayyy too long to show all the weeks that Wii outsold the PS3 and or the 360 in software, its nearly every week it does that, with a few exceptions here and there, like the Halo 3 week, where Wii outsells its competitors in terms of software, regardless of install base, the individual weeks are samples, because its easier not to have to paste dozens of links.  And I'm not mixing up different issues, my point has been that software is what keeps sales momentum and that Wii has the software momentum relative to its competitors, even if it has dropped a off a bit since last year.