| Barozi said: Including Wii Sports, Kung Fu Panda/LEGO Indi & SEGA Superstar Tennis ? |
Yes it includes bundled games for a few reasons:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.









