Toefactor on 18 March 2009
| bouzane said: @Toefactor Attach rate varies wildy from one installment to the next and is an extraordinarily poor way to determine the sales for the next installment in a series. MGS4 having a far greater attach rate than MGS3 should have made this fact so painfully obvious but somehow it didn't. This example is relevant because is shows how attach rate is useless in making predictions. |
Of course attach rates aren't a perfect science. Never claimed they were, but for the sake of this thread comparing attach rates is the only logical way of making a prediction. What other possible way can you think of? "Errr, ummm I think GT5 would sell more cause GT games are teh 1337 pwnzorz lulz!"
In a nutshell, there is no perfect way of answering the OP's question, but some ways are probably more accurate than others, and both the Halo and GT franchises have a long sample list to base attach rates on. I doubt very much that either franchises attach rate for their next game will change dramatically.
Can you think of a reason why Halo 4 would have a lower attach rate than 25% or why GT5 would have a higher attach rate than 25%?
