Vladez said:
DerNebel said:
DevilRising said:
Ignoring games that were bundled with a console is pointless. People still bought those systems BECAUSE of the game bundled with it, they bought those bundles BECAUSE of the game. The games were bundled in the first place because, in most cases, they were already popular titles, or quickly became such, making them system sellers, which is why they were bundled in the first place. The fact that they were bundled was just smart business, and it doesn't negate their popularity or selling power one bit.
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Consolemakers don't only bundle games because they're system sellers, they also bundle them to give them more exposure in hopes of increasing their popularity see for example Sony bundling Infamous 2 or MS bundling Forza.
In Mario Karts case the bundle exists because the game is a system seller though, still that doesn't mean over 30mil people bought this bundle because they necessarily wanted Mario Kart.
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And if you take the Wii Sports example?? I bet 90% of the people that bought Wiis bought them BECAUSE they needed/wanted to play Wii Sports in the first place.
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In japan Wii Sports wasn't bundled, Nintendo has sold 12.75m Wiis in Japan but only 3.77m wii sports copies were sold. Seems like only 30% of the people that bought a Wii was interested in Wii Sports. Suppose Wii Sports wasn't bundled If we apply that % to worldwide sales then we get only 24.3 Wii sports copies sold, that considering the worldwide attachment rate is similar to Japan
