| Avinash_Tyagi said: 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. |
And again, you should learn to be way more precise if you want to logically support your claims, because what you're saying now is not the justification for what you said before, ie that holiday sales are the reason of the lower tie ratio.
It's obvious that the software tie ratio will drop after a period of sustained sales such as holidays. A lot of new Wiis every week, but certainly not all of their owners also buy 5+ games, that would be the only way to keep the tie ratio constant. But in the following months this bump in hardware sales should become a -smoothed- bump in software sales as the new owners buy games, up to the point where it all averages out into the historical tie ratio, unless you suppose that those holiday buyers are for some reason different and won't buy the same amount of games as other buyers.
Thus the fact that the tie ratio drops right after the holidays - obvious - doesn't support your justification for the lower tie ratio overall of the Wii.
And you can point out all the isolated weeks you want, but each Wii does not sell significantly more software than each PS3 or 360, it sells slightly less. It's factual and written in the totals and in the tie ratio.
Actually this fact that the Wii sells (very) relatively less software combined with the number of high-tie-ratio titles in its library would be an indicator of them being must-have titles, maybe of the kind that can drive hardware sales. But that's not what you said.
