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TWRoO on 05 May 2010
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ElGranCabeza said:
Smeags said:
Spedfrom said:
makingmusic476 said:

That's the LTD attach rate.  PS3 has had the lead in attach rate in Others since the week ending November 1, 2008.

It's somewhat susprising compared to the 360, considering the install base for the two in Others is near identical while the 360 has been out for 1.5 years longer.

I'd attribute a large part of the blame to piracy.

Well, let's not forget the fact that there are some early 360 games (not to mention DS and PSP) that have incomplete sales data, especially in the Others regions. Not to say that the PS3's tie ratio isn't impressive, but just that there's a lot of data that continues to be updated in the Others.

@hallowedbeeddie

I like the numbers!

That's true for the PS3 as well though, including newer games like Buzz Quiz World, Singstar 2, Hot Shots Golf 5 and RockBand 1 and 2, and a lot of older games are imcomplete, i.e. missing or have oudated data. It's true for all consoles and handhelds. Just something I noticed, I'm sure ioi is working his hardest to bring us the data, off the top of my head we got Oblivion Others data for PS3 and 360 up to date, GoW2 for PS2 and Ratchet for PSP. So in due time we'll get more, I'm sure.

It is a more advanced problem for the X360 though.... i'm not saying the PS3 software isn't impressive, because it is.... but while there is the occasional  recent game that doesn't get figures in "others" most missing games are from before ioi fully started tracking the area.... which was only about 6-7 months after the PS3s PAL launch, but over 20 months for the X360.

For the total lifetime sales of the games I did work out a good multiplier about a year ago... as tracking has got better since then it doesn't work but to get an idea of the difference between the systems:
PS3 and Wii total games sales I multiplied by about 1.3/1.4 to get an estimate of the real total.
X360 multiplied by about 2
DS multiplied by about 2.5
PSP multiplied by 6

I can't be bothered looking at it in detail now, but I imagine its about 1.2 for PS3/Wii, 1.6 for X360, 2 for DS and 3 for PSP