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curl-6 on 13 January 2014
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lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Nobody buys 7-8 games when they buy  a console. 

This week, 14 months after it was replaced, Wii sold 21 times as much software as hardware.

1) They do if it was a christmas present they received with games, that they barely touched after a few months.

2) With sales as low as the Wii is getting hardware wise that is hardly surprising, a more telling fact is only having 3 games in the top 75 of software sales, 2 of those 3 clearly there for the same reason colonial marines is, that being bargain bin purchases.

curl-6 said:

If every Wii owner dropped the system like a bad habit, the attach rate would be 2-4. It's not, it's 7-8.

If lots of people were still buying wiiu games then the software to hardware ratio would be at least 1 in 35 wii owners buying games, but t's not, it's 1 in 107.

Let's take a look at these consoles in more detail.

PS4 - 1 in 7
XBO - 1 in 7
WiiU - 1 in 9
PS3 - 1 in 28
X360 - 1 in 33
Wii - 1 in 107

Well that pretty much puts game buying versus available customers into perspective now doesn't it, fat load of different that attach rate you love to churn out makes.

You're delusional if you think 100 million people all bought 7-8 games within the first month of buying a console, then abandoned it permanently. You're perpetuating a myth that is as absurd as it is propaganda.