2008 Year in Review: American software sales per unit-month

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HappySqurriel said:

Fumanchu said:
Don't know if I'm reading this right? The 360, which supposedly has the highest attach rate of any console, ever, actually had the worst attach rate per units sold on average for 2008?? Weird...

 

No one (that I have known of) has tracked this statistic over a long period of time, but I suspect that it would generally start out very high because the most dedicated gamers would buy in early and you would have the smallest ratio of "dead" systems ... Over time you will start to see more and more people who buy games less regularly buy a system, and more "Dead" systems will be replaced (or just not have games bought for them) and you would see a steady decline in the software sold per unit-month ratio

 

 

I suspect that certain consoles might have a more active used game market, also. Maybe it's just my town, but there seems to be a lot more 360 used games on store shelves than Wii games. Part of this might be due to 360 having a older library of games, and part of it might be that the demographics on the 360 are more likely to buy and sell used games.