HappySqurriel on 15 April 2008
| famousringo said: Stop drinking the cool-aid, Cap'n. PS2 was notoriously hard to develop for, and Wii software sells just fine. Week of Wii Software Market Share Apr 4 42.3% Mar 28 38.1% Mar 21 45.1% Mar 14 58.2% Mar 7 33.0% Feb 29 45.5% Feb 22 43.9% Feb 15 40.3% Feb 8 45.4% Feb 1 53.8% Notice how Wii's software marketshare hovers around the Wii's hardware market share? This pattern held for the entire holiday season for all consoles. Install base is the single most important factor in software sales. So if the Wii moves as many hardware units as the PS2 and remains supported in the market for as long as the PS2 has, it may very well sell more software. |
Yeah, most people don't understand that although the attach rates for the PS3 and XBox 360 may be higher they are not enough higher to make an impact on total hardware sales. As an example, suppose the XBox 360 and PS3 have an attach rate of 12 games per system whereas the Wii only has 10 games per system, also suppose the Wii sells 100 Million pieces of hardware while the PS3 and XBox 360 only sell 50 Million pieces of hardware each; in the end the Wii will have still sold 1 Billion pieces of software compared to the PS3/XBox 360s 600 Million pieces of software.
