The attach rate is higher because the console has been out for a year longer, that and die hard Nintendo fans tend to buy pretty much anything Nintendo puts out. This is evidenced by the fact thatevery million + seller on the Wii U is made by Nintendo. In fact, of the top 20 games sold on the Wii U, 19 are published by Nintendo.

Nintendo fans buy Nintendo games at higher rates than MS fans buy MS games or Sony fans buy Sony games. This is a well known fact.

The attach rate is higher, that means that Nintendo fans buy more Nintendo games than MS/Sony fans buy ALL kinds of games on their platforms of choice. You see, defying the odds. ;)

We're comparing one company here (according to you) to hundreds of companies. One year headstart is nothing compared to that.

One year is signifcant when the consoles you're comparing it to have been out for less than two years.

Then compare two systems with similar userbases you genius.

Compare the DS and the PS2, the PS2 sold almost twice as many games.

Compare the GBA and the 360, the 360 sold over 2.5 times as many games.

Do you maybe see something of a pattern there?

Oh so what we're doing is once again making up our own rules so that Nintendo can somehow win your stupid comparison huh? "Oh, it doesn't matter that the crushing majority of games on the Wii U doesn't sell, we're only looking at this one dozen of games, so the Wii U is totally defying the odds"

underlined: tell that to Cod and AC on Wii U

And you're actually going to pull out Shovel Knight, well whoopie you got one example of a game that is not only heavily reminiscent of old Nintendo games but also got there almost a year earlier, it still made over a third of the money it made on WiiU+3DS on PS and Xbox systems, do you wanna go over the list of games that failed to make even 10% of the money on Wii U that they made on PS4 or X1?  Or do you wanna go over the fact that according to this site the PS4 has sold almost 4 times as many games this year as the Wii U has? Or do you wanna keep making up senseless handheld vs console comparisons to be able to say that the "Wii U is defying the odds"?

bolded: Apparently not incorrect enough to stop you from using them to make a Vita vs. Wii U comparison.

I'm out, gotta go to bed, someone else can deal with this shit.

Took a bit longer than I expected, but it should have good legs like always

I always used confirmed million sellers as a source, not vgchartz.

CoD and Ass Creed don't appeal to Nintendo fans, yet they do appeal to Sony fans who are the only one's buying a Vita. Yet those games still sold quite poorly compared to some of Wii U's offerings.

You were the one that brought up tie ratio's, I was always talking about million sellers. You know, this thread is about one such million seller. Wii U's tie ratio is still higher than the PS4/X1 despite those consoles having the support of hundreds of companies while Nintendo is mostly just being supported by themselves on the Wii U.

Wii U is also beating the DC when it comes to million sellers. Tell me ONE other company that could get 12+ million sellers on a userbase of 10 million. With only games THEY made or published. Good luck finding another company. That's what they call defying the odds.

I thought the game would've sold a million within the first week.

Here's the most hilarious thing about it. You think this is something Nintendo should be proud of.

This is a clear example of just how bad of a situation Nintendo is in. They made a console that panders to die hard Nintendo fans and no one else. It goes to show just how small Nintendo's fan base actually is. It goes to show that its the same 10-12 million people buying the vast majority of the games they put out. No one other than diehard Nintendo fans are buying the Wii U. No one. Did I mention those 10-12 million people used to be 30-35 million people in the Gamecube days? Their hardcore fanbase is the only thing Nintnendo has left and it is shrinking.

The writing is on the wall. Nintendo is getting closer and closer to going the way of Sega. Yet somehow, these same hardcore Nintendo fans think that narrowing the appeal of the NX to appeal to these hardcore fans even more is a smart business move. Sorry guys. If the NX fails as bad as the Wii U, but this time drags the 3DS down with it, Nintendo will more than likely be done making hardware.

Hardly the case. You got the userbase all mixed up.  Many Nintendo fans are satisfied with just the handheld and diversify their gaming interests by having Xbox or PS as their home console or do gaming on PC, smartphones, and tablets as well because 3DS + all other gaming devices because that combination offers the most variety.

If you think about it, there's very little the WiiU offers that the 3DS clearly doesn't have some sort of equivalent of at a more affordable price and with wider general selection.

The reality is that there are well north of 50 million Nintendo fans. Some are too busy with the handheld and other things to really consider the WiiU. Some are lapsed Nintendo home console fans 1) not ready to go with the handheld or 2)won't buy a console that has very little momentum and very little chance of offering much more than what we already know about. This demographic isn't just hardcore - a large portion make up another emerging generation of younger gamers.

I do have to apoligize. There was a typo. The above should read 20-25 million, not 30-35.

Gamecube sales: 21 million worldwide
Gameboy Advance sales: 81 million worldwide
Total: 102 million worldwide

Wii U sales: 10 million worldwide
3DS sales: 53 million worldwide
Total: 63 million worldwide

Where have those 40 million people gone? Are they just biding their time, waiting for a price cut?

Are you really going to try to argue that the experience on the Gameboy Advance vs the Gamecube is that dramatically different from the expereince on the 3DS vs the Wii U? The games you can play on the GBA are pretty similar to the games you can play on the 3DS, and the games you can play on the Gamecube are pretty similar to the games you can play on the Wii U. Nintendo has been making refreshed versions of old ideas for a long, long time, and every generation more and more people get tired of it and stop supporting them.