1) They do if it was a christmas present they received with games, that they barely touched after a few months.

2) With sales as low as the Wii is getting hardware wise that is hardly surprising, a more telling fact is only having 3 games in the top 75 of software sales, 2 of those 3 clearly there for the same reason colonial marines is, that being bargain bin purchases.

If lots of people were still buying wiiu games then the software to hardware ratio would be at least 1 in 35 wii owners buying games, but t's not, it's 1 in 107.

Let's take a look at these consoles in more detail.

PS4 - 1 in 7
XBO - 1 in 7
WiiU - 1 in 9
PS3 - 1 in 28
X360 - 1 in 33
Wii - 1 in 107

Well that pretty much puts game buying versus available customers into perspective now doesn't it, fat load of different that attach rate you love to churn out makes.

You're delusional if you think  100 million people all bought 7-8 games within the first month of buying a console. You're perpetuating a myth that is as absurd as it is propaganda.

They clearly aren't tripping over themselves to buy games anymore, are they.

attach rates dont mean anything. All that matters is software sold and Wii has not sold that much software in 2013. Software sold is the only factor in determining if people are actually buying games for the system. Their that ends the argument.

YOu are right about PS360 they dont determine whether people bought the Wiis and dropped them they do show what software sales SHOULD be

the system was essentially retired some time ago.

Just as it was for a large portion of its userbase, within a year of buying it.

Im not saying there are not hundreds of thousands that own and love their Wii, don't get me wrong, but the wii, just like every other console, has a fair chunk of users that buy or have it bought for them on a whim, theres are generally kids who get mommy or daddy to buy them one at christmas or birthdays because kid x or kid y at school has one, in these instances the moment something else becomes trendy in their social groups the past trends are dropped like a rock.

the Wii attracted records sales for a nintendo console, but in doing so a record number of kids as outlined above, so it is not unrealistic to predict that a good 20-30% of the consoles sold did not see any use past the 1 year mark, including the game bundled with the console, that would leave (under your terms) 1 year to purchase a further 6-7 games.

Being realisatic, nobody bought their kid JUST a Wii console and asked them to make do with the bundled game, did they?, they at the very least got 1-3 games, which then leaves 1 year to make a further 3-6 games, if you think 3-6 games purchased in a years time for a console that was flooded to death with shovelware is unrealistic then i don't even know what to say to you.

While the "played less than a month and shelved" rhetoric may not be universal, there are sure to be plenty that did just that, but realistically, a larger portion would have ditched it within the first year, I sure did.

And for the record, I still own that very console, it is sat next to me as i type, along side my 360, vita tv, ps3 and ps4 (xbone is under the tv hidden away next to my WiiU because its just too damn big).

You paint a picture that just isn't realistic, the wii sold extremely well but the notion that it wasn't a fad for a large chunk of its userbase is just wrong, after all if those users had not ditched the console or switched to other platforms, the WiiU wouldn't be on the virge of being lapped right now, would it?