| mrstickball said: You know, you could always look at the fact that the average X360 owner buys 8.0+ units of software, and the average PS3 owner buys 5.5 units of software as a quality metric to ask 'how would game X sell on console Y?'. The PS3 lags well behind the 360 in overall attach rates, which really hurts the notion that most PS3 exclusives would sell better on the PS3, when the global metric proves otherwise.
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Well the way I see it is that since some genres sell more than other genres on certain consoles, that has a whole lot to do with the attach ratio. For example, shooters sell like crazy on the 360, and most of the high profile exclusives on the 360 are shooters so of course ppl will buy tons of them. The PS3 fanbase, IMO is not a shooter based, and this gen has been all about shooters which could be why the PS3 attach rate is not as high. I'm not a HUGE fan of shooters and I bought my PS3 at launch thinking it would have more RPGs and that is why I haven't bought lots of games (again, most games this gen are shooters). I'm not saying that everybody is like me, but if there are a good number of ppl that are like me and buy few shooters and wait for other games (that may not be as succesful) then that could be a reason why the attach rate is not as high. There are many variables, everything is not black or white (again IMHO).
