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Yakuzaice on 09 May 2013
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TheLastStarFighter said:

The attach rate for COD on Wii U was actually the same as on 360 if you remove the massive first week sales.  The Wii U version launched late and most COD buyers will not wait.  But from the time the Wii U launched going forward, the attach rate was actually better on Wii U than other systems.  Same for AC3...actually AC3's attach rate was MUCH better on Wii U.

Wii U buyers are buying 3rd party games at a solid rate.  There just aren't enough of them.  Nintendo needs to push systems ASAP.  Having the system available on launch day of new games is also very important.  If COD: Ghosts sells 3-4X what Blops2 did, I think Activision would be happy with the trend.  Nintendo just needs a user base pushing 10 million so that a 5-10% attach rate actually means a lot of sales, as it does on PS360.

Even with the ridiculous stipulation of not counting first week sales, that isn't even close to true.  7.75% of 360 owners purchased Black Ops II after the first week.  Only 3.64% of Wii U owners purchased it after the first week.  Even if you remove the first two weeks from the 360 and no weeks from the Wii U, you get 6.08% versus 5.99% for the Wii U.

Of course, none of that matters because Activision isn't going to have tortuous stipulations to somehow make 180k look better than 12,126k

How about we look at another Call of Duty launch game.  By the end of April 2006 CoD2 had sold 949k units to 32.7% of the 360 install base.

Or the PS3 which had CoD3 at 418k by the end of April 2007 (12.9% attach rate).  That was a late release (very late in Europe), only about a month of sales in Europe, and before Call of Duty exploded in popularity.

5-10% of a year old install base is not equivalent to ones 7/8 years old.  Also Call of Duty 4 had a 31.8% attach rate by the end of April 2008 on 360 and 25.5% on the PS3.

Both the 360 and PS3 had similar hardware sales to the Wii U in Apr 06/07, but had sold more software (and selling significantly more on a weekly basis).  Considering 54% of the Wii U's software is from NSMBU and Nintendo Land, I'd imagine the third party gap is even larger.