Bundled games count huh? Can we add solitaire and minesweeper to the chart?

[Squilliam]

FishyJoe said:

Squilliam said:

Q_A_X said:

FishyJoe said:
I don't think anyone ever bought Windows just to play Solitaire or Minesweeper, or at least normal people.

Wii Sports OTOH was the best selling game in Japan in 2007 and it was not bundled at all.

 

OTOH?

 

 Hes only got one (hand), thats why the Wii is such a big thing for him. .

My main point: Why count bundles at all when they aren't sold? They don't produce any revenue, they introduce fuzzyness to the numbers, and their main purpose is added value - akin to a price cut.

Because if Wii Sports wasn't counted, some other game would be purchased in its place. It's kind of hard to use a Wii without any software. Although I suppose it's possible through VC and WiiWare, but that is highly unlikely.

Really, if you don't want to count it, it isn't that hard to ignore it.

 

Would it have even been purchased in the first place? Even if its got a 50% attach rate in the wild, then realistically its overtracked by 13million compared to what people would have purchased had the game not been free. Im using Japan where it isn't bundled as a guide for how much it would sell without being bundled. There wouldn't be a 100% conversion rate had it not been bundled either for the purchase of an alternate game instead as it was given away free.

Theres also the problem that if Wii Sports and Wii Play are just considered bundled then its unfair on the Wii because in Japan - Wii Sports isn't bundled so it under represents their total sales and its also unfair because its much more difficult to extricite the bundled numbers out of the Xbox360 and PS3 numbers.