UncleScrooge said:
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:
I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.
Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)
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Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.
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I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.
I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.
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They'll come close enough that retailers will continue ordering.
You also have to consider that a launch will have the absolute lowest softare to hardware sales ratio a console will ever see. it only grows from then on.
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Not for the PSP  In Japan the software:hardware ration even dropped below 1 for some time after the launch of the PSP 2000. But yeah, generally you're right.
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Well, a hardware boost like that can definitely affect your attach ratio but that's like a launch all over again.
This also true for Vita. But it's an outlier that was bolstered by numerous launch day bundles that were taken away a week or two later. This set Vita up with the highest launch attach ratio in history. But because consumers already had so many games at launch and then few games showed up after launch, it didn't have the normal organic increase typically found.
