It may just be that everything interesting to add at least for myself was mentioned above or like myself again, I'm trying to swallow how you came up with the EU % I've re read it at least a dozen times so far, and I'm calling it quits.
I get the numbers but maybe it's just me... VGC doesn't keep track of which week software hit a certain number after the 10th week... unless it does and I just haven't seen that function, but I'd figure for an accurate measure you'd need to find the difference of software sales between periods being estimated.
However your conclusions sound reasonable to the graphs that were released from the NPD, but I believe those graphs potrayed all three platforms starting at the same time, (setting Xbox360 to 0) But I don't normally apply to this method anyway. so I'll just continue to read...
Actually all the numbers share the same issue, granted you said you used the attach ratio to solve for this, but I remember TheSource stating that with an rapidly increasing install base the attach rate would seem lower... but you addressed that also anyway ... +1 for making most of this obvious. Good stuff.
I'm only confused about NPD attach ratios being applied to EU... I'm wondering now, I'm not 100% certain but I believe VGC applies the attach ratio each week for All 3 platforms under the weekly updates, you could refference that for EU.
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