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Declan on 10 December 2010
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Pineapple said:
Beuli2 said:
TruckOSaurus said:
thx1139 said:

Out of the 9,384,664 pieces of software for the Wii 2.2 million of them were bundled with a Wii console and resulted in $0.00 additional revenue.

Last year out of the 10,055,875 pieces of software for the Wii 1.46 million of them were bundled with a Wii console and resulted in $0.00 additional revenue.

Your point being?

There is no point. He is only stating the obvious: that bundled software doesn't result in profit.

Why are both of you assuming that a machine bundled with a game costs as much as the machine would without the game? The Wii's launch prices in countries it launched with Wii Sports compared to the ones it didn't tell a completely different story.

And where he gets his 2.2 million pieces of software from is just strange. Did he add up all the NSMB Wii, Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort sales? That would account to 2.2 million. That's just plain silly, though, as only a fool would expect that anywhere near half - let alone all - of NSMB Wii's, and kind of Wii Sports Resort's, sales are from bundles.

I'd personally say a fairer number is 1054k from Wii, plus ~ 200k from both Wii Sports Resort and  Wii Sports Resort, as well as 50k from Mario Kart Wii in Europe, and possibly 50-100k from Wii Fit Plus is a fairer estimate. So around 1600k bundled software for the Wii, I'd say.

The 2.2 million figure seems kind of ridiculous.

Apologies - I've largely repeated your point before scrolling down to check whether someone had already made the point I was going to.  As for the 2.2 million figure, I suspect the methodology was simpler and less flawed than the one you suggest.  My guess is that there's an assumption that basically all Wiis outside of Japan (i.e. roughly 1.1 million) come bundled with 2 games, hence a 2.2 million figure without any suggestion of how many were WSR, NSMBWii, Mario Kart Wii or Wii Fit.