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Well in that case let's get rid of Gran Turismo, Forza, Infamous, Uncharted series, Fable, Little Big Planet, and well pretty much every other exclusive as they all get bundled.......

There's quite a difference between Sony/MS bundling which is almost exclusively done at holidays in select regions, and Nintendo which bundled Wii Sports year-round for quite some time.

You're probably looking at 10-15 million bundled games between MS and Sony vs. >40 million for the Wii, if not a bit more.

Its not enough to shift the statement, but I think its an important qualifier to the argument.

I get what you are saying but there is no way on knowing how much each game has been bundled.  And like it or not it is a business's strategy to get these games in the customers hands.  They don't care how, what is sold is sold.  Do you think it is some kind of coincidence that only 1st party games basically get bundled?  That is there way of getting more customers.

Actually, it's pretty easy to figure out which ones are bundled - at least the major ones.

Wii Sports and Resort were bundled with the Wii significantly. I'd venture to say about 60% of them were bundled, at a minimum. That'd cut off about 60-65 million units sold, or more.

Comparatively, with Sony and Microsoft, you simply have to go look at Black Friday ads from the past few years to see what titles are suspect, and correlate them with anomalous increases during the holidays - like LittleBigPlanet and Forza 2.

As for 1st party games getting bundled, its pretty easy to figure it out. They don't pay royalties on those games. So the cost to the company is essentially printing the disc. So the cost is ~$3 if that per game. It increases the percieved value of the pack without increasing the price. Its why Nintendo was so incredibly profitable when the Wii launched - it was charging about $50 more in NA than in Japan, yet it did so only because Wii Sports was included, costing Nintendo about $3-4 to actually do.

Nintendo making the most played games THEMSELVES and raking in ALL the money for those games!

Only a company like The N could pull of dominating a Generation with Standard Def. graphics!

Now if you did the painstaking job of finding out if this is the same case for 3rd party software included, then it'd be quite the fun thread.

realliy?is that the case in the US? in Europe the 360 and PS3  always have bundles through the year.. it's  harder to find a non bundle console.. for example GT5 is still bundled..  now with Uncharted 3.. every year there is a PS3 Fifa bundle.. there is always a Forza/Halo bundle.. sure the games change versions but there are always bundles in Europe..