| Hyruken said: America has a over 10 attach rate for the 360 so i call those numbers bogus simply because that would mean a drop of 6.5, not very likely, plus it would also mean 2008 was the 360's lowest selling software year which again is bogus as we know it was their best year. So the numbers don't quite add up. |
This is not attach rate. Attach rate is number of software units sold per hardware unit sold in a given timeframe.
These figures measure total sales rate of the userbase over the year. ie, how many games sold per X360 user in 2008 in US is 3.54. Most surprising of all - per system, the Wii sells more software in 2008 per user.
What does this mean? It shows relatively how much of that user base does not buy software. If the attach rate is high, but userbase sales is low, it shows:
(a) large amounts of userbase do not buy software or
(b) Large numbers of failures not replaced by the userbase
This is the most important figure a 3rd party developer will look at. This is why 3rd party support for the PS3 is not going anywhere. It also explains the huge volume of titles being released on the Wii.
