Motorstorm Sales...

[Bodhesatva]

I understand your position Kwaad, and I don't think it's completely unreasonable, but I also don't think it's totally sound.

The easiest example is Wii Sports: because the game comes iwth every system, many people are happy to get Wii Sports and then not buy anything for months. Obviously, if the system did not come with a game, that wouldn't be the case. 

In effect, completely discounting Wii Sports would totally bork the attach ratios if anyone were trying to calculate them (which I have), because people are buying less of all other games besides Wii Sports. Counting every single copy of Wii Sports probably isn't fair; but discounting all of them isn't fair, either. Honestly, the best solution would be to count some fraction, perhaps 50 percent, but there isn't a clear way to do that. Ioi's solution is to simply tally all the sales, then let any person ignore them completely if they so choose, or count about half of them, as I do, or whatever you want to do with them. I think that solution makes sense.