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Barozi said:
Including Wii Sports, Kung Fu Panda/LEGO Indi & SEGA Superstar Tennis ?

Yes it includes bundled games for a few reasons:

  1. When you look at Manufacturer and Retailer bundles, all 3 systems tend to have a bundle that is widely avaialble at all times and only a few of those bundles are particularly easy to track.
  2. Its difficult to quantify what percentage of people who receive a bundled game would have bought that game anyways. Regardless of whether you receive Metal Gear Solid 4 or Wii Sports there will be people who bought the system specifically to play that game.
  3. Even if the game is not that high on someone's "must-have" game list, it is likely that someone who receives a bundled game will buy less games with their system.

With that said, whether the bundled games are important is dependant on what you intend to use these statistics to show. If you were trying to show how much revenue per system sold was generated for each platform the lack of bundled games would be an issue, but the difference in sale price of the game is also an issue and revenue is not as important as profit (which would be even more difficult to quantify). In contrast, if you were trying to show how often gamers for each system were buying games the bundled games should be included; after all, gamers for each system would have to be "Done" with their bundled game before they would buy additional games.

 



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wait are you using vgchartz SW numbers because they are quite incomplete.



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RCTjunkie said:
360 in last of the big 3, but still extremely close.

 

Fixed, if I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number

 

@ johnsobas - they're incomplete for all consoles, and most of the missing data is from others, this is from Americas



johnsobas said:
wait are you using vgchartz SW numbers because they are quite incomplete.

 

They are incomplete, but the sales they're lacking are in games that are low volume and the combined sales of these low volume games only represents a very small portion of total software sales for a platform ...

 



Interesting way to look at it. This is much more correct than looking at attach rates alone.

Surprised at the DS numbers, and pleased by the huge boosts for Wii software in the holiday season.



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Do bundles help software sales or hurt them?
At least during the holidays the bundles hurt software sales cause people who purchased 360 don't have to get any games for a while.



Coca-Cola said:
Do bundles help software sales or hurt them?
At least during the holidays the bundles hurt software sales cause people who purchased 360 don't have to get any games for a while.

 

Except those bundled games are included in the OP, so if somebody decides they only need bundled games they aren't impacting sales any more than if there was no bundle and they had to buy a game (or two, in the case of 360's bundle).

Bundles would help sales a little, since some people (who knows how many) would decide that they don't care for the bundled software and buy something else in addition.



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Games are getting so much higher in quality, and so much lower in price than they ever did. I don't think I've ever bought so many games in the last two months, for the ps3 that is. As for the wii over there in the drawer hidden away, I didn't buy ANY games for it in the last two months : P for shame Nintendo!

These figures don't suprise me at all.



Theo said:
Games are getting so much higher in quality, and so much lower in price than they ever did. I don't think I've ever bought so many games in the last two months, for the ps3 that is. As for the wii over there in the drawer hidden away, I didn't buy ANY games for it in the last two months : P for shame Nintendo!

These figures don't suprise me at all.

Ditto!

except I bought games for 360 and 1 naruto game for Wii.

 



Sorry, this may be very stupid, but what is unit month?