The Wii sold more software than the 360, that's the big news here! The Wii sold 11 million games in the US in December, the 360 only 10 million games. Clearly, the old king of software sales is dead.

What I found funny is this:

Basically what most people use to try and discredit Wii's software sales is Wiiplay. Cries of "It shouldnt coooooount". But we see, in December the biggest month of the year, even if you subtract Wiiplay. Wii still sold more software than the 360, and with a smaller userbase to boot. Theres no spinning that.

And also we see that at 14 months into its lifetime, 360 had sold 7m less units of software than the Wii at this point. Its real easy to see where this gen is going. The 360 can keep its attach rate, its not going to matter. Wii will take #1 this gen in total hardware units sold, and total software units sold eventually.

The fact that the 360 has a library 10x superior in most genres than the Wii makes it even more embarassing. 

Keep in mind that the attach ratio is calculated by the number of sales of games for the month and the number of consoles sold for the month. Because there was a shortage of Wiis, the purchases for previous Wii owners had a bigger impact than they otherwise would.

That said, Nintendo had insane software sales in December and deserves kudos. It's all the more impressive when you consider that the Wii comes with Wii Sports. People could buy the system and it could have an attach ratio of zero and they could still be playing Wii Sports.

What!!?? This can not be right, all people buy the Wii for is Wii sports!!, Well anyway good going Ninty. Nintendomination continues :D

Were there a lot of bundle-required sales in December?
I don't remember seeing a lot.
I just remember seeing people line up for shipments of Toys R Us -- then leaving with game unit -- and games -- in hand.

Mike from Morgantown

This is amazing, Wii is the winner of sales in December

Kyros said: December was the month where the wii was so supply constraint that you only got it bundled with at least 2 sometimes many more crappy games. Just to put this a bit into perspective .

no, the vast majority of wiis were sold in retail stores, not online...where targets got 150 on one sunday alone, etc etc

the bundles had the crappy games...so all u have to do is look at how high the unbundled games like smg, gh3, wii play, m&s olympics, etc etc ranked to see that it wasn't all bundles that did that

"to see that it wasn't all bundles that did that"

I didn't said that it was ALL bundles. But bundles played a part. I wouldn't say how big a part but the attach rate will become meaningful when Nintendo is finally able to meet demand.

It is an interesting way to look at it. It's good that they sold 8.11 times more software then hardware in December but that is to be expected seeing as how the install base is close to 9 million and most wii owners would have picked up a game for Christmas. This should not however be mixed up with actual attach rates which take into account the actual install base.