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

[Avinash_Tyagi]

I'd love to see how the Wii has a 5 game attach ratio. Where are Nintendo's financials to prove that?

Right in the report thaty handed out last month which detailed the sales up til the end of march

The 29M sold software figure is indeed mentioned by Nintendo, however these are the numbers sold by Nintendo, not the number of sales to consumers.

The Nintendo financial numbers can't be used for tie-in 'cause the shipped software is a lot higher than sold software, while the shipped hardware is very close to the sold hardware.

Actually in the reference to the 29 million Wii games they comment that its purchased by consumers not stores, they say that the 29 million consoles were purchased along with the 5.84 million Wii consoles

In addition, in less than five months since introduction, the company sold 5.84 million of its new Wii(TM) home video game systems globally, virtually every one snapped up immediately by consumers, along with nearly 29 million Wii games.  

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/04/nintendo_cleans_up_in_its_fiscal_year_results.html

 

The report also contained software sales, and Nintendo have sold 28.84 million Wii games for an attach rate of 4.9 games sold per console. 124 million DS games were sold for the year bringing the total to 184 million sold since launch, giving the DS a 4.6 game attach rate. Finally, 38.53 million GBA games and 16.8 million GameCube games were sold for the year, bringing their life to date totals to 366 million and 206 million games sold respectively. It should be noted the report specifically states that these software sales do not include games bundled with hardware. 

 

http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=7426