PS3 has a higher attach rate than Xbox 360?

[theRepublic]

dcIKeeL said:
@therepublic

I see the logic in your point but i think that the time frame thing is more anecdotal than anything else, i agree it has some impact but that impact isnt nearly as big as the impact the number of consoles actually sold has on attach rate.

Also a year isnt much at this point, and that point came quite a while ago.
I mean for the time frame to really affect the attach rate u gotta think about how many of those consoles sold are even new enough to figure into the equation, and determine at what point has a console been owned long enough for its impact to diminish to near insignificance.

Lastly, besides those 5.6 million 360 owners who owned a 360 ahead of any ps3 user i dont believe any other units sold afterwards should be considered since these owners are relatively at the same point of their own personal console lifetime. So really u hypothetically add these 5.6 to the 8 million lead of the 360 and u have 13.6 million lead(hypothetically) for the 360. 13.6 million is still short of the 21 million of ps3 ownership to claim double the software sales for 360, let alone 3x the sales.

Did you check the link to the other thread that I posted in my reply?  That goes into more detail than I did in my post.

Think of attach rate this way:
It is the average number of games that have been bought by each console owner.

And what is the most important factor in how many games someone owns (on average)?  Time.

 

Edit: Another way to look at it - Attach rate always increases with time.  Look at where the 360 was 50 weeks ago (6.14 as shown in the post above) and where it is now (7.54).