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Wii owners bought 8 games per system in December photo

A friend visiting my house a few days ago pointed out how weak my Wii game collection was compared to the collections for the rest of the consoles I own. I agreed with her and pointed out that I was a bit behind in my purchases. It seems that my collection might be stronger had I purchased my Wii console in December of 2007.

Wii owners purchased 8.1 games for every system sold in the month of December according to NPD data. This great attach rate just barely beats out Xbox 360's figure of 7.8. The PS3 trailed with 5 games per console. 

According to GamePro, the Xbox 360 leads with a lifetime attach rate of 7 games per system, while the Wii and PS3 follow with 4.6 and 4.3 respectively.

Over 8 games per system? Christmas season or not, that's an impressive number. We know that Super Mario Galaxy is included in that figure, but what else do you think made the list? 


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Patriot SE's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:30
Patriot SE
Eh Im not surprised. With most parents super excited that they were getting this for their kids they probably bought a bunch of other titles to make it the best christmas ever. Wii Play, Carnival Games, EA Playground, RE4, Galaxy... All these would be bought with the system.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:30
A New Challenger
Not Zack & Wiki :(
Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:32
Toneman
Funny, I still only own 2 games for my Wii. Wii Sports and Zelda. And I'll probably only ever own 3 once Brawl comes out.
B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:32
B-Radicate
I got Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda, and Battalion Wars 2 for Christmas. I've had my Wii since August, though.

As a side note, they were the first new games I got for my Wii since I picked up Scarface alongside my Wii. Hmm, maybe Nintendo has some data on THAT shit.
Kalakaua's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:32
Kalakaua
Jesus, 8 to 1?

Unless they count Virtual Console games, I only have two. I'm below average. :(
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:34
EternalDeathSlayer
Probably a bunch of kids and stupid non gamers that picked up a few of these classics:



Minus the PS2 game, obviously.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:34
king3vbo
Well.. I guess I have 8 games for my Wii so makes sense
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:34
falinter
There is a copy of that Ninjabread Man at the Best Buy I work at but no one knows how it got in the store because it doesn't have a scanable SKU so we can't sell it. It just sits in the back begging to be taken home and played.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:35
vexed alex
I only have two. Excluding Wii Sports.
subnet6's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:37
subnet6
I have 12 or so games on Wii. Attach rate of 8 for the month is great. I'm sure a lot of the 360 sales were christmas gifts just the same so parents buying games will skew both platforms.

Anyway, considering the bulk of the annual software sales happen at this time of year, this should help to dispel the myth that people aren't buying software for the Wii, then again fanboys will find a way to make it seem unimportant I'm sure. Lets see if they can keep up the competitive attach rates in the months to come.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:40
EternalDeathSlayer
Zelda
Mario Galaxy
Zack and Wiki
Resident Evil 4 Wii
Resident Evil UC
Elebits(I hate it)
WarioWare

I feel like something is missing. I honestly can't remember if I own any others. I think I do though, but it was probably so unmemorable that I can't think of it.
razerangel's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:41
razerangel
I place serious money on most of those games being part of a bundle the retailers made the customers buy. HMV in edinburgh were only selling wiis with a four game package and lots of accessories in late december.
SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:43
SourGr8pes
Seriously? And that doesn't include VC games? Of all the Wii owners that I know, no one owns more than 4 Wii games. Hell, I can't even name 5.. How accurate ARE these statistics?
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:46
MaxVest
Bundles. Seconded.
konchu's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:47
konchu
It would be nice to see what the games sells are responsible it probably is alot of Casual titles along a few biggies SMG etc since its holiday sales. My last few games I bought were Zack and Wiki, Super Mario Galixy, Nights, and No More Heroes. I hope every able body gamer buys No More Heroes and Zack and Wiki I want to see sequels.
ttaylor's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:51
ttaylor
How the hell do you have the time to play 8 new games during a month? Crazyness. My average is 1 new game a month, sometimes I get a couple when good titles come out and sometimes I go a couple of months without a new purchase..
IceMax's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:55
IceMax
Not Counting Wii sports, VC and Links crossbow training, i have 14 Wii games. only about 2 or 3 of them are waggle fest games as well.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 17:58
Oni
Anybody who says they're only going to get like, 3 games for the system are robbing themselves of great games. Yeah, there's a lot of shit out there, but there are more than enough good nuggets of corn to make it worthy to pick through.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:00
mix
I own 5:

RE4 remake
Resident Evil-Rail shooter one
Zelda
Super Mario Party Crazy Infinity Loop Extreme 18
Metal Slug collection
Lithium's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:00
Lithium
I own 4 games for wii
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:01
Dexter345
I think you're interpreting this a bit wrong. It seems to me that the Wii sold X number of units in December and also sold 8*X number of games. That doesn't necessarily mean that people who bought Wiis in December bought eight games with them. It could conceivably be that there are seven times the number of Wiis already in consumers' hands as were sold in December, and then everybody who owns a Wii bought ONE game.
Shin Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:03
Shin Oni
My Wii purchasing has been behind because my 360's hogging all the game buying.
bayushi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:05
bayushi
8 copies of Re 4 !
^_^
EightBitMav's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:05
EightBitMav
I've bought all of 3 games for my Wii...

Tenkaichi 2, Twilight Princess, and UR MR GAY.

The time of the casual gamer is now, I suppose...
lucashoal's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:17
lucashoal
I would guess GHIII is on that list, since it was a rare find come Christmas time. That and for Nintendo fans, it's the first in the series we can play. (I've played the others, but never owned a non-Nintendo console)
Gott's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:21
Gott
No way in hell US or UK buyers bought 8 games per wii. The Japanese probably buy every game released for the wii. They have no filter when it comes to japanese games they just buy buy buy. Look at the DS they have something like 2 or 3 per household. They're nutty.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:21
MaxVest
Following up on Dexter's point, I think he's right in saying people are reading the summary line of this report literally.

What the data is more likely saying is that if everyone who had wanted a Wii for Christmas had been able to get one, the attach rate would have been much lower. But during the busy holiday season, Wii systems were supply-constrained while Wii games were not.
Lebowski26's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:22
Lebowski26
This study has left me scratching my head. From what I have been able to observe, the Wii's catalogue of games is its biggest weak point. No one that I know that has a Wii has more than 5 games in their collection, and all of these people have had their Wiis for more than a couple of months. I have four games. My 360 also takes up 99% of gaming time at my house, though.

Still, that number seems WAY, WAY high.
Hiltz's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:24
Hiltz
I have 6 games with Wii Sports being the only casual one.

The only games I bought in 2007 were Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy.

I'm going to try and get No More Heroes tomorrow. However,every store I have been two in the last week either had no copies or are still waiting for their first shipment to arrive.So frustrating. :/

I plan on picking up Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Okami in March.
BluFire's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:25
BluFire
This year, I got:
SSX Blur
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Zack & Wiki
Super Mario Galaxy
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:28
Sam Spectre
I have 9 but I've only really played 3. My little brother spends the most time playing the Wii.
MaxVest's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:36
MaxVest
If Wii sold about 1.7 million systems in NA in December (sorry, using vgchartz because I don't have NPD data) then about 13.6 million software units moved. This is about 1.7 games for every Wii owner, averaged over December. That's very good, but not as remarkable-sounding as 8 games for every console.
Trowble's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:40
Trowble
I have 3 games and they're all 1st party and Smash Bros. Brawl will make it 4.
wannabepunktony's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:53
wannabepunktony
I have a feeling far too may Conspiracy/Destineer titles found their way under Christmas trees this year.... =\
ChillyBilly's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:54
ChillyBilly
I have 14 games for the Wii right now and the majority of them were bought in December. I helped the numbers!!
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 18:55
Furnimus
Wii Sports
Zelda
Rayman
Excite Truck (fun lol for seriousness)
Super Mario Galaxy
MasterMS's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 19:02
MasterMS
@ EternalDeathslayer

Could you be missing Metroid, although that wasn't a bad game
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 19:02
Kyousuke Nanbu
A lot of shitty games that's for sure.
Scammeleon's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 19:05
Scammeleon
I'm almost ashamed to admit that I own 29 Wii games including Wii sports.
And I feel most of those were bought during the early "zomg I has new console, must buy gamez!" rush in the early days/months, when I first got the little white box.
But half of them are barely touched, and even the ones that are are mostly for multiplayer marathons (except Zelda, Metroid, Mario and Resi 4).
And since I got me 360, I can see myself playing Wii games even less. Which is a shame really.

I can't Help but feel the Wii will be the PS2 of this generation, a bestselling format, with only a fine slew of decent games lost in an ocean of tat.
Though saying that, I still haven't bought Zack and Wiki... My bad
dotdotdot216's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 19:07
dotdotdot216
Wii sports (over it)
RE 4 (beat it)
Super paper mario (got half way through boring now)
wii play (whats my motivation?)
mario party 8 (hate all in the series)
zelda (WORST IN SERIES and i sold it, seriously i really hated it because the world was big but felt so empty, i prefered OOT and MM because while smaller the world felt alive, i WANTED to do the side quests but in tp i wasn't motivated at all. Really disapointing)

I want medal of honour heroes 2 and mario galaxy.
not at all excited about brawl, just looks like the other 2 ssb games.
vp360's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 19:51
vp360
wii sucks
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 20:08
brainderailment
Just goes to show what kind of discernment, or lack of, wii owners have.
BlackbeardonGuitar's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 20:33
BlackbeardonGuitar
You realize how off your math is right. THat was 8 games per system sold, but that was all the other owners buying games. So your left with probably less than 1 game per system over decemeber...not that amazing really when you think about it considering how many systems there are.
T0MSERV0's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 20:40
T0MSERV0
Also, is wiiplay on the list? Because I know that it's been a huge seller in terms of games, but that's primarily because it comes with a wiimote and only costs 5 or 10 dollars more. I guarantee that this game alone is skewing those numbers higher than they should be.
Twicky's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 20:43
Twicky
Since Wii is (regretfully) being marketed to people who don't know the first thing about gaming, I'd say that a lot of shitty games are in that list. This does not detract from the Wii being an awesome console, however.
AKK's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 20:49
AKK
I have:

Wii Sports (2 discs, one broke)
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Warioware: Smooth Moves
Godfather:Blackhand Edition
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
No More Heroes
[I've payed in full for Brawl, so I technically own that as well]

On top of that, I've 16 Virtual Console games.

So, I'm around the average for the fantastic world of December.
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 21:03
John B
Zack and Wiki
Guitar Hero III
DDR: Hottest party
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Super Mario Galaxy
Need for Speed: Carbon
Disney Pixar Cars
Carnival Games
Brunswick Pro Bowling

Lots of VC games: All of the Marios, Sonic, Sonic II, Sonic III, DK, DK Jr., Bubble Bobble, Ghost N Goblins...

Waiting for Brawl, likely to buy Metriod 3 soon and No More Heroes soon.

Where the hell is a good flight combat simulator for this damned console? :(
xMalachi's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 21:17
xMalachi
I just saw the list and Wii Sports was number one with 17 million.. lol wtf Nintendo you noobs that silly game doesn't count it comes with the system
Johnny Blaze's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 21:27
Johnny Blaze
I have Red steel, ZTP,WII play, Harry OOTP, UR. Mr Gay, Endless Ocean, Metroid Prime 3, No Mo Heroes... But I sold harry for endless ocean for mah women.. cause i am nice like that...
Drunkenman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/28/2008 22:12
Drunkenman
Hmm, It seems not many people have Mario Strikers Charged I think it is a great game for the Wii especially when ur playing with a friend.
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