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TWRoO on 18 February 2010
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nordlead said:
Declan said:
I think the percentage of Wii owners in the UK who have never put Wii Sports into the machine would be pretty close zero.

but you don't know that, you are just guessing. Obviously something is off as you are putting Z&W numbers above capcom statements.

besides, as I stated people are buying the system for games besides Wii Sports. As a simple example (granted it is a sample of one) I used to bring my Wii over my parents house all the time, until finally my brother got one. He never put Wii Sports in the system, as we had already played the game to death of the course of a year. Instead he put in Wii Play, Strikers, and other games. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that the "core" gamers who are buying the system today aren't even bothering with Wii sports as they'd rather play MKWii, NSMBWii, WSR and many other titles.

I'm not saying that no one puts it in, but it is possible that your 10% of Wii owners are submitting data is wrong. Heck, now I might have to find Nintendo's online attach rate numbers if I can be bothered to dig through Nintendo press conferences.

I estimate the percentage of Nintendo Channel users who haven't put Wii Sports in is about 1%

You also have to take into account that some of the data on the Nintendo Channel may be before they put Wii Sports in as well. The data is only up to date as of the last time the user entered the channel (possibly of the day before they last entered the channel) so someone might have bought a Wii in November with 2-3 other games... played them, then checked out the Nintendo channel, then gone on to play Wii Sports and other games but never re-visited the Nintendo Channel.

The assumtions on game sales though are way off.... the multiplier for Wii Sports (and thus the console) might be about 10.... but the multiplier for other games can vary to as low as 2 or 3 or up to 15-20.