PS3 has lowest console attach rate

[Comrade Tovya]

noname2200 said:

MikeB said:

@ noname2200

*logical post*

I'm with you. Which is part of what confuses me so much about why "tie ratios" are ever brought up; it's a statistic that makes the market leader seem weaker than the others.

Looking at tie ratios, one would conclude that the PS2 was the weakest console last generation. That's obviously not the case! Yet in one statistic, the greatest software-seller ends up looking pathetic on teh software front. Need we say anything more?

But I've repeatedly registered my opinion on the uselessness of tie ratios, in vain, so I suppose there's no point in saying it yet again.

 

I certainly agree with you on this... I've bought 3 PS2 consoles since they were released, and bought around 30 games for it.   But the attach rate for my household is not 10:1 (as 3 consoles with 30 games would suggest) but really 30:1.  My two older PS2 consoles are invariably dead, but I still bought the other two, so it is dragging down the numbers as result of having to buy a third console.

Also, I intend on buying another XBOX 360 for my 7 year old son, and another PS3 for my game room (as a Blu-ray player).  So by default, I am cutting our household "attach rate" in half on both HD consoles.

Attach rates work well if you buy one console with 'X' number on games, but the numbers get skewed the second you factor in duplicate players for the same households (as long as the games are shared of course).