RolStoppable said:
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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