Brainslug on 10 March 2009
| phisheep said: @brainslug: I don't subscribe to the notion that so-called casuals buy fewer games than the hardcore do - or at least to the idea that this has any noticeable impact on game sales and attach rates. Sure, there appears to be a sharp divide between those of us who amass games at an alarming rate and those who anecdotally stick to Singstar, Wii Sports and Wii Fit. But the numbers don't lie, and the Wii has at least as good a sales rate as the other two. Which suggests there are far more people than we imagine in the middle ground between the two. It is also possible that the hardcore with lots of games are far more likely to rent or buy used, which would depress their market impact. |
I completely agree, The wii sells as many games as any other system - but it's a game machine advertised as a game machine.
What I meant in one of my examples is that selling the PS3 as a media center to the general public gets you exactly that, people who use it exclusively as a media center to watch movies.
As far as my friend who gets all his multi-plats on Xbox - he swears that it's because all the multiplats he's played to date always run better on his xbox - way less glitches. There's a good chance that this kind of opinion isn't an isolated case.
I'm just trying to think of examples that I know of personally that might cause the Xbox to have a higher attach rate.
