NA sales.

[Kwaad]

Software Totals:

Console	Weekly
	451,722
	386,000
	373,185
	354,180
	160,308
	121,208
	7,507
	6,137
Total	1,860,247

2

Wii Sports

Nintendo

121,277

3,061,173

4

Wii Play

Nintendo

66,268

1,152,655

 

Ok, this is how I see it. For software sales, I dont feel Wii Sports and Play really count. Now hear me out on this before you think I'm bashing the Wii.

Wii sports, in NA, is packaged with the game machine, I feel it shouldnt be counted as a 'game' sale, because you did not have the choice to buy that game at all. If you want a Wii, you got that game. It will remain the #1 game over the majority of the next 5 years, wether the Wii is a fad or not, it will remain the #1 selling game for the next 5 years. (besides major game releases for a few weeks each)

Wii Play is a Wiimote with a 10$ game. I dont feel this should be counted, because as far as I am aware, budget 20$ games are not counted for any other console, why should a 10$ game be counted for the Wii? I dont really know if I've even ever heard a good thing about Wii play, but hey, it's a game for 10$ more than the controller, why not give it a try... right?

Ok, so now here is how I see the total sales for the Wii.

373,185 - 121,227 - 66,268 = 185,690

So that gives what I feel should be counted, just over 185,000 games sold on the Wii. That is far from impressive considering 121,227 consoles were sold during this week. That means if every person who bought a Wii got 1 game... that would leave roughly 64,463 Wii titles sold over the week to 'previous' Wii owners. Or roughly 2.2% of people who already owned a Wii bought a game.

The 360 has around 5.1%

The PS3 has 9.8%

The DS has 2.4%

 

A older console usually has lower numbers than a new console. That is abysmial for the Wii. The fact the DS has nothing new this week, yet it is a higher % than the Wii, is really amazing.

I've always trash talked 3rd party software sales on the Wii. This really suprised me when I thought to add the numbers this way. Do the people who bought the Wii, even buy games? Even play games?

EDIT: That last line seems kinda baiting, let me rephrase myself. Does the average non-gamer, Wii buyer, even buy games, or even play them?