Why are games selling so poorly on PS3?

[carlos710]

Bodhesatva said:

Just to prove my point, I just did a calculation of worldwide software totals this week.

PS3: 1,460,000

Wii: 3,291,000

PSP: 639,000

If you do the math, the Wii and PS3 totals provide very similar attach rates: there are approximately 2.2 more Wiis than PS3s in the world, while the software sold at approximately 2.1 times the rate. Very close, with PS3 AHEAD. By comparison, the PS3 sold 2.3 times as much software as the PSP, even though the PSP has around four times as much hardawre! That means the PS3 software sold at well over 8x the rate per system.

That should put the PS3 software totals into perspective for you. PS3 is fine.

And this is why attach rates are worthless. As a developer i would prefer to sell a game to 50% of Wii userbase than 100% of ps3 userbase, for 2 easy reasons:

-It would mean bigger sales overall, thanks to the Wii userbase.

-I would spend much less in development on the Wii thanks to the system architecture.

At the end i would end with much higher profits on the Wii.