Does It Really Matter How Much Switch Sells?

[Peh]

RolStoppable said:

Peh said:

They definitely sold 100 millions of WII's to the customer. But most of the customers just bought it for WII Sports. They never bought any other software for it. It was something different for them and tried it out and that's it. Expecting those customers moving over to the WII U was a mistake.

The things you read on gaming forums... you actually believe them, right?

A quick check of the numbers and running some basic maths in your head would make you realize how nonsensical your post is. Let me explain.

Wii sold 100m units of hardware and 900m units of software. You say most Wii owners never bought any other game than Wii Sports; most implies a majority, but I'll put the value at 50m to make the maths easier. Now we have:

50m units of hardware with 50m units of software for a tie ratio of 1.
50m units of hardware with 850m units of software for a tie ratio of 17. (That's a ridiculously high tie ratio, but keep in mind that I am actually lowballing your insanity.)

So if we assume that there were 50m scumbags who owned nothing but Wii Sports, we are left with 50m gamers who loved the console so much that they bought an average of 17 games for it. Why did those gamers not move to the Wii U then? For your information, the Wii U sold less than 14m units and has a tie ratio of ~7.5, so the Wii owners who bought a Wii U bought a lot less games for their new console.

You don't need to bother to explain the maths, because the numbers simply aren't going to add up.

"The things you read on gaming forums... you actually believe them, right?"

"...running some basic maths in your head would make you realize how nonsensical your post is"

"but keep in mind that I am actually lowballing your insanity"

Condescending, much?

I havn't checked the real attach ratio, I was simply speaking by what I heard and I was in the wrong here. No need to act like an asshole, really.