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Alic0004 on 22 June 2009
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largedarryl said:
Alic0004 said:

It's amazing how much serious discussion can be generated without even bothering to check the data. I'm pretty sure the PS3 passed the Wii's tie ratio in early 2009. The data on the wiki page cited in the OP by MWJW doesn't seem to have been updated since early 2008! Did anyone actually see the graphs I posted up there ^^


I do agree that the blueray player push probably hurt the PS3's tie ratio early on, though. If you look at the graph I posted, you can see that right around that time the tie ratio curve started to go negative.

Well this attach ratio discussion isn't a new one.

Vgchartz currently lists the Wii Tie ratio at 6.03 and the PS3 at 6.02, so roughly the same.

The more serious discussions about this issue ussually delve into why the PS3 has the same attach rate as the Wii when the Wii sells ~2 times the amount of hardware.  When statistically a system that sells less hardware should naturally have a higher attach rate.  I'm sure if I looked through some thread history I could find some real threads (with real data) that went down in flames.

    That's weird that VGchartz has the PS3 still below, though I guess it's really not that far off from other peoples' data.  There were stories all over the internet three months ago about how the PS3 had passed the Wii.

 

   Are you sure a higher selling system usually has a lower attach rate?  Was that true of past generations?  It certainly isn't true of DS versus PSP.

 

    By the way, how do you check the lifetime software numbers on VGChartz?  I can't figure it out :)