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RolStoppable said:
thetonestarr said:
I would personally agree that 1 is nonsense, of course, but given that it is the SNES that sells the SNES Classic, NES that sells the NES Classic, Genesis experience that sells the Genesis Mini, etc, I would argue that #2 is certainly within the realm of reason.

If you don't count the software sales by any means, then would you therefore argue that SMB sales are skewed from everybody getting that when packed in with their NES consoles, or Wii Sports sales numbers invalid from NA and EU Wii sales?

There's a stronger argument to be made about skewed figures when one looks at bundled games that were definitely not titles that the market would have bought if given the choice. Both SMB and Wii Sports rank high in Japan's all-time software chart without being bundled, so it would be dishonest to say that their high worldwide sales were only achieved because of bundling. Bundled software is part of the business and the purpose of bundled games is to make the console more appealing. Both SMB and Wii Sports did an excellent job at that, so whatever people want to argue about inflated sales because there were people who didn't want the bundled game, it must also be acknowledged that there were people who put down $200-250 just to play that one game.

It certainly does make it difficult to ascertain, because for instance, I had zero interest in yet another copy of ANY version of Street Fighter II, nor in Contra III, but then Star Fox II is exclusively available through SNES Classic. 



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