Why did Wii game sales explode????

[ookaze]

The math is simple : the Wii sold nearly twice as much games as the XB360.
Attach rate is just misleading in this context, and I'm surprised so many people were so mislead by it.
You can't use attach rate to measure anything, when one console is selling more than twice as fast as its nearest competition. Especially when the customers buying it have completely unknown behaviour compared to common trends, like what Bodhesatva explained.
Actually, people that argued Wii software sales always used a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most always went by ignoring some Wii game sales, like Wii Sports or Wii Play.
Despite these games appearing as software sales in Nintendo's quaterly financial reports, these people manage to contest them being software sales. Denial total!

BTW, no Wii game is second generation for now, not even Mario Galaxy, and SSBB isn't either : they are 1st generation at best. None of the games out now for the Wii at least. Perhaps the next Konami, Namco Bandai (the ToS only team in fact), EA Sports, Capcom titles, and of course Nintendo, will be 2nd generation games, but that's all. None of the other third parties have even reached the state of 1st generation of Wii games, for shame. Most of their games are not even at the level of high end Gamecube. It's another record of the Wii (but not its fault) : the record of most lame effort put by 3rd party on games for the crushing leader of the generation.

I still wish for these 3rd party to go under, instead of taking all the console gaming world with them.
This attitude is just stupid, self-destructing and inexcusable. Like making cross platform games for the Wii 6 months later, when it's too late. I would not support such developers.