Yet Another Sign Of Domination.

[Sky Render]

Nickelbackro said:

Sky Render said:
I have a disturbing little revelation for you all, which anybody with a head for numbers will have already realized: attach rates are ratios, meaning that they are not indicative of actual sales. An attach rate of 15 games sounds great at first, but if that system only has 5 million units sold, that means it's only sold 45 million units of software. While you could argue that this is a phenomenal number of games per user, it doesn't change the fact that the system has sold only 45 million units of software, far less than a system with 20 million units sold but an attach rate of 5 games.

Always look at the big picture before focusing on the little picture, or you will mistake the forest for a random collection of trees.

I did actually take into account that attach rate is a ratio, i was considering the fact that between the Xbox 360 and PS3 they have over 50% of the market share with a supposedly higher attach rate. Now it may be that Wii shoppers tend to be Walmart shoppers vs a hardcore PS360 crowd that freqents places like gamestop and wii may actually have a higher attach rate at Walmart, but i don't think anyone outside of Walmart corporate headquarters that would have that info.

 The answer is simple enough. While combining the two does give you a greater number, they are not in fact the same; joking "HD Twins" label aside, PS3 and 360 are separate products, and are figured as such. It doesn't matter than their combined whole exceeds the Wii, what matters is that neither one has an individual total which exceeds it. The "HD systems vs. Wii" dichotomy exists only in the minds of a select few consumers. To a store manager, each system is independent of each other one, and all that matters is which specific systems make them the most profit.