jarrod said:
Carl2291 said:
jarrod said:
The other difference is that Nintendo bundles games people actually want and buy the system for, while Microsoft and Sony often tend to bundle shit that doesn't really move much on it's own anymore (if it ever did).
People buy a Wii for Wii Sports and NSMB. No one ever bought a 360 for Kung Fu Panda...
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Kung Fu Panda was bunded for one Holiday season along with LEGO Indy (I think). Correct me if I'm wrong.
This Holiday they had the Kinect bundles and Forza/Alan Wake.
This Holiday Nintendo had Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, NSMB Wii and Mario Kart Wii.
Right now, Nintendo are bundling Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus with the system in the UK at least. That's a lot of SW given away with the console. Although it isn't in the third of all Wii SW that I said before. It's just over a third of Nintendo's own SW.
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Sure, but bundles work both ways... someone who buys a system bundled with a game (or two!) is less likely to buy an additional game. It's not like if every Wii came with no games (like Japan) it'd have sold a third less software this week.
And point really was that Nintendo tends to bundle their system sellers and top performers almost exclusively. It's not like WSR, Fit Plus, NSMB or even Mario Kart wouldn't have sold any of those additional units were they not bundled, their standalone sales assuredly would've been significantly higher. I don't think you can really make the same argument for something like Alan Wake or even Forza 3 at this point.
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Well I think you can agree at the very least it would have been less, and not neglibily. The sales would have been less, but arguing the amount is shady.
