Currently the NPD future for October calls for about 354K sales of Wii Play. In September it sold 243K, so this would be an 46% increase with one less week of sales. Seems pretty unlikely to me.
If the ratio of systems sold to Wii Play was the same as September, 354K Wii Plays would translate to a full million Wii sales in October, which is both quite unlikely and way above what simExchange currently predicts (694K).
I notice Wii Play recently dropped a few hundred. Unless this was just some random person going for some liquid money (I know I've done this before), perhaps the announcement of Wii Sports Resort makes some people think Wii Play's importance will be lessened? But as long as Resort just comes with the MotionPlus and Play continues to come with the Remote, I don't see them harming each other.
It's at 9.23m by the end of 2007 and will sell extremely well until Wii sells well. Without a doubt it will sell the most amongst Wii softwares. With an attach rate of about 45% (9.23/20.13) atm, you know when Wii sales reach 60m this game will be at more than 25m for sure.
What an odd headline, you must be quite happy that your original post resulted in this headline :) plus the (much more important) DKP increase of course.
"Wii Play may end up topping all other Wii titles in sales over the course of the system's life, according to simExchange. Also, the DS in Dec. 07 may have set a new sales record."
I say they only bundle in a new one, if the old one stops selling. Why giving away a new game for $8 if you can do it with a old one? In matter of revenue, its better to stick to that, what sells. In other words:
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Where have I heard this argument?
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