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In regards to the Wii SW bundle debate going on, all we can really say for certain is that the Wii currently comes bundled with a lot of software and that there is no possible way that 100% of the people who buy a Wii would buy all of the games that come bundled with it. We can also say that it is highly doubtful that Wii owners that would buy those games would buy them all immediately.

So the bundles may "artificially" inflate Wii SW in general and may front load a lot of purchases to the time the HW was purchased.  Wii SW is by no means "pathetic".

I'm not hating on Wii SW, I'm just stating facts. Bundles increase software sales, period, and the Wii has had more bundles (pretty good ones granted) its whole life in some regions.  Due to the quality of the bundle, the "inflating percentage" due to the bundles may not be as high as the Kung Fu Panda/Lego Indy bundle from a few years ago but no one can really know what any "true" numbers would ever be.

So why don't we just say that the SW numbers reported are the "real" SW numbers and just talk about those since most everything else is conjecture :)