Jimothy Sterling said:
Aardvaarkman said:
Jimothy Sterling said:
... and the Wii trouncing its competitors.
Wait, when did that happen? Sure, the Wii had initially strong console sales, but in terms of ongoing game sales, it's been a dismal failure, and the Wii U is a total non-starter.
The Wii was a dismal failure wut?
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I'm glad this is your response. Frankly, I'm surprised you're responding at all so I'll flesh out the details so you don't have to bother.
As of right now, these are the sales numbers if this is still accurate:
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=&platform=Wii&genre=&minSales=0&results=1000
140 different titles have sold over a million copies (582 title just there). Total game sales combined make up over 840 million games sold to approximately 100 million Wiis as of March 31st of this year. Very easy math would put the attach rate at 8.4 games per console. To be fair, Wii Sports does account for around 81.38 million, but even if you discredited them as non-distinct software sales it'd still be over 7 copies per console.
Compare that to the PS3 which is at just over 7.7 games per console and the 360 which is at 8.7. The Wii is right there with them. What's not doing well is the WiiU which hasn't cracked 2 games per unit.
None of these are are failures, the Wii least of all since the Wii actually sold more units total so their attach rate is more heavily weighted. It looks like it comes in at somewhere between the ps3 and 360. But even the ps3 was a success albeit a bumbling one early on.
The wii itself has always been sold at a profit which the other consoles can't claim. The Wii was a huge success and will hopefully help Nintendo weather the storm that the WiiU looks like it's shaping up to be.