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HappySqurriel on 03 January 2008
Zucas said:
I still don't think its fair for finding out the tie ratio without including Wii Sports, and especially Wii Play, a title bought in stores haha. I mean because Wii Sports may come with the console, but you have to take into a fact now when they buy a console they already have one game, meaning it may not be necessary for them to buy another game. This would offset now the tie ratio by obviously 1 pt, for not including it.

And not including Wii Play is silly. Just cuase it comes bundled with a Wii Remote means nothing. It's still a game and bought by people as a game. I think at least Wii Play should be added in, but you get my point about Wii Sports.

Above and beyond all else, I left them out to avoid arguments ...
The resulting statistics end up being both better and worse for the Wii ...



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Rath on 03 January 2008

This means that (roughly) 3 titles were purchased by every Wii owner in 2007

Wii owners (on average) buy 1 Wii game every 2 months



Those two things don't make sense together.




Shade on 03 January 2008

I'm impressed by the sheer amount of sales for only the Wii first year, can't wait other see what next years sells bring for the Wii. And HappySqurriel you've outdone yourself for these topics (I saw the Ps3 one as well And I hope you do a Xbox 360 one as well) definitely mod material.



Kerren on 03 January 2008

alot of people had their wii for youst a fiew months



FinalEvangelion on 03 January 2008

I think it would be good to point out without Wii Sports as well. But then all the Motorstorm, Forza, and Marvel would have to be taken in consideration as well for the other systems.



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Kasz216 on 03 January 2008
Rath said:
This means that (roughly) 3 titles were purchased by every Wii owner in 2007

Wii owners (on average) buy 1 Wii game every 2 months



Those two things don't make sense together.



 That's because they are taking into account months owned.



Shade on 03 January 2008

@ Kasz and Rath, it's more of an estimate since it would be impossible know if everyone in America who owns a wii has either 1 or 25 games or so for it.



HappySqurriel on 03 January 2008
Soriku said:
Oh yeah, where's the "third party games don't sell on the Wii" argument now?

I could be wrong, but from what I see as third parties start producing better games they should eat away some marketshare from Nintendo, as the Wii's userbase grows software sales will grow alongside it, and by this time next year it will be impossible to make this same claim anymore.



Rath on 03 January 2008
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
This means that (roughly) 3 titles were purchased by every Wii owner in 2007

Wii owners (on average) buy 1 Wii game every 2 months



Those two things don't make sense together.



That's because they are taking into account months owned.


 Explain slowly please?



Kasz216 on 03 January 2008
Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
This means that (roughly) 3 titles were purchased by every Wii owner in 2007

Wii owners (on average) buy 1 Wii game every 2 months



Those two things don't make sense together.



That's because they are taking into account months owned.


Explain slowly please?


 3 titles purchased by every wii owner is taking the total number of wii games sold and dividing by console ownership.

 While the second figure is derived by dividing total number of wii games sold by the total months a console is owned instead of total consoles sold.  

For example, say there are 4 wii consoles, and they sell 12 games over the year.

That would be roughly 3 titles purchased by every wii owner.

Now say, of those consoles, 1 had been owned for 12 months and the other 3 had been owned for 4 months each.  So out of a total of 24 combined months of ownership 12 games have been sold.  So they have sold 2 games per month.

 This second method, while trickier to calculate is less biased then the first model, which is biased towards sysems that arn't selling well.  Take the PS3 for example, which until recently hasn't been selling well after a huge burst at launch.  It's attach rate would be much higher, as the average length the system has been owned is higher, therefore people have played through the games and bought new ones, while your raidly new expanded Wii owners who just  bought the system last month have yet to get tired with Wii sports.

Of course it's not a perfect science since people tend to buy 2 or 3 games at launch.  But it's still a slightly better indicator.