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Miyamotoo on 22 December 2015
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oniyide said:
Miyamotoo said:

If you comparing sales of some games you cant ignore facts like if some game was launch title or not and instal base.

Actual MM was released after OoT and had huge drop in sales, WW that was relase after MM with 4.5m is above MM sales. Also fact.

Yes, required Motion Plus or Remote Plus is excuse. It came bundled with game but at what price!? Resort has sales of 33m so basically 1/3 of all Wii owners had Remote Plus. Wii with Remote Plus arrived at end of 2010, basically when Wii sales were already in fall. Not to mention that Skyward Sword arrived on Wii when already was dead and huge number of people already migrated to other platforms.

 

false, the wii motion plus came out summer of 09 with Sports resort. dont know where the 2010 came from.  and 1/3rd is also false, that only accounts of the Wii SPORTS RESORT bundle sales. other games had bundles (that sold like crap) and Ninty started bundling it with the system shortly after, that winter. So its probably closer to half of Wii owners having motion plus. So thats stil an install base of nearly 50mil. more than N64 and GC. yet it still sold less than WW for GC and far less than OOT for N64. so attach rate really doesnt mean anything at the end of the day.

Motion Plus come at summer 09, but Wii Remote Plus and Wii bundles with Remote Plus come out at end of 2010. Wii Sports Resort sold 33m, thats 1/3 of all Wii owners, also not false.

We can say that nearly 50m owners could have Wii Remote Plus or Motion Plus, but thats at least 50m people that needed to buy Wii Remote Plus or Motion Plus if they wanted to play Skyward Sword, so definitely SS sales numbers would be higher if game doesn't required Wii Remote Plus or Motion Plus. Also Wii was very dead at end of 2011. when IS finally arrived.

Of Course that install base is not only factor if talk about sales, but definitely one factors.