American Next-Gen Software Sales: The Chart! (Jan-Apr)

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rocketpig said:

nintendo_fanboy said:

but if you don't take out wii sports, the wii has sold more software altough everybody said the wii is only for casuals and they will buy less games than the xboxers do. I guess you can look at it both ways.

and about wii sports: depending on what you want to see, you should in or exclude it. If you are interested in the number of games the wii buyers own and how much they play then you should include it. If you want to know about the money spent on games you should exclude it of course.

 When trying to judge software sales, you can't include a bundled game. People get it whether they want it or not. There's no choice in the matter and people aren't spending a single extra dime for the game.

It's akin to Sony claiming that they've sold almost 3m peripherals already for the PS3 because they're including every controller that came bundled with the system. It doesn't make sense.

Well I'm just guessing, but I think most people that own a wii have spent a good amount of time playing wii sports, and possibly they would have bought another game if wii sports wouldn't have been included. this is why I would definitely include it to calculate the software attach ratio.

and please don't try to make up arguments by comparing something like a controller with a game. I think you need the controller to play the game, but you don't need wii sports to play another game. It would be different if somebody packed a second controller with its console.