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Squilliam said:
Khuutra said:

I disagree; based on Iwata Asks interviews, the idea behind it was that the packed-in software was going to drive sales, and the take-away inside of Nintendo is that Wii Sports worked as a pack-in.

The Wii would have sold as much over the first few years without it as a pack in given the perenial shortages. Effectively the Wii was under-priced given their inability to make enough consoles. Had they gone for something a little bit more expensive and a bit more sprightly under the hood their revenues/profits would have been higher again and likely the tail end of their sales would have been flatter with more generous margins even if the price curve had remained the same.

My point is that Iwata has indicated that Wii Sports as a pack-in is what helped to drive sales, and they would not sell it separately given a choice.