| TheLastStarFighter said: The topic is rates, not totals. The premise is that people who buy a WiiU do not buy games like COD. The reality is that a similar percentage buy COD as PS3 owners. There are just less WiiU owners because it is brand new. |
| TheLastStarFighter said: I honestly think the WiiU attach rate is more impressive. WiiU Black Ops is competing with 2 must have titles in NintendoLand and NSMBU on the same day. Few people are buying more than 2 or 3 titles in one go. This was not the case on PS3. But regardless, I simply think that a 1% change from one system to the next does not make sales go from great to dismal. That's just silly. |
Just because you keep saying they have similar attach rates doesn't make it true. Both the PS3 and 360 have an attach rate of over 12% in the US according to the November NPD. Not to mention attach rates for individual games tend to go down as systems get older, not up. NSMBU definitely won't have a 60% attach rate in 7 years.
Your point on US attach rates are valid, your point on attach rates going down is not. Some attach rates will go up from launch week, others down. You can be sure that Mario and NintendoLand will go down, as they are the first two games purchased by most people. When they are done with those, they may pick up a COD, an AC, a ZombiU perhaps. So those may go up as people buy more software. Then as the next wave of software hits, attach rates for all titles will most likely decline. I would expect lots of changes. However, I do feel that Black Ops being the 4th most popular title at launch should be considered a success. Unlike the 360 Launch, when there was almost no must-have software, this COD has some juggernaught competition. BlackOps is doing well, and it's dispelling the myth that people who buy a nintendo system won't buy a title like COD. THey'll buy it as long as it's not a crap version.
