curl-6 said:
The stereotype that people bought a Wii, played it once, and never touched it again doesn't hold up to factual scrutiny; the system had an attach rate of 9 games per console, you don't buy 9 games for something you only played once. Nor does Wii U's failure indicate Wii customers were unsatisfied, simply that the Wii U wasn't a worthwhile successor. |
Okay, with an attach rate of 9 games per console that's around 900 million games sold. Let's say 30 million people are die hard Nintendo fans and buy 20 games each. That's 600 million games, leaving us with 300 million for the remainder of customers. Now let's say that 20 million people are buying 12 games each. That's 240 million, which leaves us with 60 million games for the remaining 50 million customers. That would be an attach ratio of 1.2 for the remaining 50 million customers. So yeah, it's completely possible that 30 million Grandmas bought a Wii and threw it in the closet. And at 87 million PS3's sold all it would have taken was 13 or 14 million unsatisfied Wii customers to make PS3 the pragmatic winner of the 7th gen.
Keep in mind the above is all just an example. Remember that an attach ratio of 9 doesn't mean that every customer bought 9 games. It's an average.
