GameStop says consumers have reserved 1.2 million Wii U titles, or double the number of Wii games in 2006! Gamasutra says 2.4 games per console reservation......

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Viper1 said:

JEMC said:
@Vinniegambini and Viper1: We'll see.

I know that the attach rate will only increase over time, but (and I hate to brig this matter here) I think that we are forgetting that many "casuals" will buy it this X-mas, and most of them will have enough with NintendoLand and Super Mario for a while. Will the rest buy enough to compensate them?

As I said. We'll see.

Considering the pre-order figures and that fact that most are the 32 BG deluxe model, I'm not so certain a big portion of Wii U buyers this holiday are casual.

And to further that, The Wii is as casual as it gets and has practically the exact same software ratio as the PS3.  So the casual factor doesn't drop sales as much as people think.

I can't comment about the second part of your post because I don't know the numbers.

About the first part, let's not forget that we are talking about pre-orders. How many casuals will have pre-ordered it? Not too many. Most of them will wait until Black Friday or until Christmas to get it.

And yes, the 32GB model is the most reserved of both, but that's not because of "hardcore" gamers but for a few other factors aswell like the fact that the Basic console + NintendoLand cost the same or more than Premium console (which includes the game), some people prefer the black colour, or because Nintendo makes more money from this model so they are shipping more quantities of this one rather than the basic one.