Bad Nintendo Wii software sales, is it a big issue?

October 28th, 2007 by Daniel

Lately I have been hearing a lot of people claiming that the Nintendo Wii software sales are very bad and that this is also the biggest issue that the Wii has.

Some Wii owners also say that many of their friends and themselves only have one Nintendo Wii game.

As an owner of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Sony PS3, I have to admit that I do have over 10 Wii games and many on the PS3 and 360.

So I do find it hard to believe that the Wii is having bad software sales, after looking into it a bit more this does seem to be the case.

One comment we had on another post said "The software sales for Wii are bad and the publishers know it. With only a 1.3 attached rate, and majority of software sales going to 1st party, it really doesn't bode well for Wii's future. Wii owners ask yourself, how many games do you own? Seriously? Most ppl I know still only have Sports. Thats it. This is the main problem."

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/10/28/bad-nintendo-wii-software-sales-is-it-a-big-issue/

In the Best Buy ad they didn't even advertise any Wii games or PS3 games. Only Xbox 360 and PS2 (yeah PS2) games were shown. (and weekly sales lately do show that the Top 20 charts are dominated by Xbox 360 and PS2 games) Is Best Buy showing the trend of software sales?

Now maybe they didnt advertise Wii games because they dont have Wii consoles for sale that week, but still, dont you advertise games for it even if the console isn't there?

It'a a catch-22 situation.
People won't start buying the games until better games come out, but developers aren't going to make better games until people start buying them.

I guess it's not a huge issue if you like Nintendo's first party games (which are always awesome), but...yeah, the Wii could end up like the Gamecube.

October 28th, 2007 by Daniel

Lately I have been hearing a lot of people claiming that the Nintendo Wii software sales are very bad and that this is also the biggest issue that the Wii has.

Some Wii owners also say that many of their friends and themselves only have one Nintendo Wii game.

As an owner of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Sony PS3, I have to admit that I do have over 10 Wii games and many on the PS3 and 360.

So I do find it hard to believe that the Wii is having bad software sales, after looking into it a bit more this does seem to be the case.

One comment we had on another post said "The software sales for Wii are bad and the publishers know it. With only a 1.3 attached rate, and majority of software sales going to 1st party, it really doesn't bode well for Wii's future. Wii owners ask yourself, how many games do you own? Seriously? Most ppl I know still only have Sports. Thats it. This is the main problem."

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/10/28/bad-nintendo-wii-software-sales-is-it-a-big-issue/

Kaktuz_basic

They're going off of message board posts? :lol:

I already debunked this. The Wii has an attach rate very close to the 360's.

October 28th, 2007 by Daniel

Lately I have been hearing a lot of people claiming that the Nintendo Wii software sales are very bad and that this is also the biggest issue that the Wii has.

Some Wii owners also say that many of their friends and themselves only have one Nintendo Wii game.

As an owner of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Sony PS3, I have to admit that I do have over 10 Wii games and many on the PS3 and 360.

So I do find it hard to believe that the Wii is having bad software sales, after looking into it a bit more this does seem to be the case.

One comment we had on another post said "The software sales for Wii are bad and the publishers know it. With only a 1.3 attached rate, and majority of software sales going to 1st party, it really doesn't bode well for Wii's future. Wii owners ask yourself, how many games do you own? Seriously? Most ppl I know still only have Sports. Thats it. This is the main problem."

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/10/28/bad-nintendo-wii-software-sales-is-it-a-big-issue/

Kaktuz_basic

They're going offof message board posts? :lol:

Casuals don't really WANT better games, they want things like WiiFlowerPicking, WiiPickUpTheKidsFromSchool or WiiPictionary :roll:BambooBanger

:lol: WiiPickUpTheKidsFromSchool, coming from EA soon

Casuals don't really WANT better games, they want things like WiiFlowerPicking, WiiPickUpTheKidsFromSchool or WiiPictionary

You forgot Wii Sports and WiiFit. :roll:

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Wii (2007) and 360 (2006) had similar total software sales for their first full year's Jan-Sep, with Wii marginally beating out 360. In a distant third, mostly because of hardware sales, is PS3's software sales.

Jan-Sep software sales for Wii, 360, PS3 is roughly as follows. (39 weeks of sales for 360 and 40 weeks for Wii/PS3 because of the 5 week Jan 2007 NPD).

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Link

LMAO attach rate is not 1.3, where the hell did you get that bullcrap.

the console only has 10 million sellers :o god, 10, thats so terrible for a console that hasn't even been out for a year :roll:

Those numbers are probably including the Wii Sports pack in , and probably Wii Play.

Those numbers are probably including the Wii Sports pack in , and probably Wii Play.

Nike_Air

Those numbers do not include WiiSports. They do include WiiPlay.

October 28th, 2007 by Daniel

Lately I have been hearing a lot of people claiming that the Nintendo Wii software sales are very bad and that this is also the biggest issue that the Wii has.

Some Wii owners also say that many of their friends and themselves only have one Nintendo Wii game.

As an owner of the Wii, Xbox 360 & Sony PS3, I have to admit that I do have over 10 Wii games and many on the PS3 and 360.

So I do find it hard to believe that the Wii is having bad software sales, after looking into it a bit more this does seem to be the case.

One comment we had on another post said "The software sales for Wii are bad and the publishers know it. With only a 1.3 attached rate, and majority of software sales going to 1st party, it really doesn't bode well for Wii's future. Wii owners ask yourself, how many games do you own? Seriously? Most ppl I know still only have Sports. Thats it. This is the main problem."

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/10/28/bad-nintendo-wii-software-sales-is-it-a-big-issue/

Kaktuz_basic

In addition, the charts above are just U.S... We have to look at Europe and Japan to see a real big picture about the truth regarding Wii having bad software sales in comparison to X360.Zaistev_basic

Attach rate of 1.3? Um, does that make the 360's 1.4?

I guess any news is true if you just blaintly make stuff up.

sales bring games, now if only someone would buy them...JPOBS

Apparently we are, just imagine sale rates if we had more good games to buy and not bad ports and half-assed games.

Wii software sales are fine, it has like 9 million+ sellersaxt113

In less than a year. The 360 only had only six or seven by this point in its lifetime. Then, of course, Gears and R6V came out.

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Wii (2007) and 360 (2006) had similar total software sales for their first full year's Jan-Sep, with Wii marginally beating out 360. In a distant third, mostly because of hardware sales, is PS3's software sales.

Jan-Sep software sales for Wii, 360, PS3 is roughly as follows. (39 weeks of sales for 360 and 40 weeks for Wii/PS3 because of the 5 week Jan 2007 NPD).

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Link

SER69

I thought about making a thread about this. But hey this works to.

The Wii seems to be selling less software relative to its hardware. However it is selling sooo much hardware it is less of an issue. cakeorrdeath

I thought about making a thread about this. But hey this works to.

HarlockJC

Cool.

All I have to say is if 3rd party devs want their games to sell, they need to put more effort into them.Zhengi

Amen.