Bad Nintendo Wii software sales, is it a big issue?
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 28, 2007 | 50 Comments
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.”
Do you agree with this persons comment and Wii owners, how many games do you own?
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You know what would solve it, if third party’s stopped making shite wii games.
Now back to Metroid Prime 3.
I have Wii Sports (obviously), Zelda, Tiger Woods 07 (what a disappointment), Madden 08, and Mario Strikers (the online feature really saves it).
On top of that, I have at least 15 Virtual Console games.
Once Nintendo figures out the “new” game download channel, and the third parties start including online gaming for most games, the sales for them should pick up.
Mario Galaxy will rule all however.
I’ve got Wii Sports, Zelda, Wario Ware and Resident Evil 4. Also in my house, but not owned by me are : Trama Center and Metal Slug.
Plus I own about … 10+? Virtual Console games.
It’s mostly a matter of money for me, I can’t afford video games like I used too. Plus, there have been only a few must have titles.
And I know I’ve missed some of the must haves
Those sales are about to get a very big boost wih Guitar Hero 3 coming out today and Manhunt 2 following on the 31st.
Well I have to be honest and say I own only three Wii games and not much actually interests me. I got very bored of Wii Sports and Wii play very quickly. Only really Zelda has saved it for me to be honest. I should get Metroid I suppose but I’m too busy playing Halo 3, Heavenly Sword, Bioshock and PES2008. Hmm I still have PGR4 as well. Fact is there isn’t much worth owning on the Wii at the moment and I can only see Mario Galaxy improving that situation, both the PS3 and 360 have better line ups and better forth coming titles.
If you look at the likes of vgcharts.com you’ll find that the Wii’s attach rate is 2nd to the 360 with the PS3 having the worst attach rate of 3 current-gen consoles. It’s a Wii urban myth.
A lot has been made of the amount of non gamers buying the Wii. Unfortunately I feel a lot of those people bought it just for Wii sports, not for it to be their gaming platform for the next 3-5 years like people who buy the 360 or PS3.
The problem is the thrid party games on the Wii all suck or are ported PS2 games with Wii controller in mind. There not taking risks or making big budget games on it. Capcom announced a “finely tuned whole hearted effort” of Okami. Problem is, its a PS2 game still. Carnival games, pool party, etc. sum up what devolpers are cashing in on. Low cost production, little revenue, nice profit
I’m confused at how you reached this conclusion that Wii software is selling badly considering Nintendo just came out bragging about how much software they have actually managed to sell.
Nintendo claim to have sold 65.81 million units of software since launch and 13.17 million Wii consoles. Admittedly that’s including Wii Sports, which is packaged with the console (everywhere but Japan), however it is still a mightily impressive figure which appears to show an attach rate of about 5 games per console. Considering the Wii is less than a year old with many new casual players buying, this is a very impressive figure so I’d hardly say the games are selling poorly…
If you want to see the facts for yourself, then go to http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/?v=news&p=18726
to see how well Nintendo is doing with regards to software.
Well, Eugene, there IS Zack & Wiki, Guitar Hero 3, and Manhunt 2. I’m guess if 2/3 of those titles are not successful, Wii third party support will die again.