GreyianStorm said:
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By the way, it has NEVER been the case that software sales are proportional to the hardware sales - the PS2 had a laughable attach rate compared to the GC and particularly the xbox. Also, basing anything off recent events is hilarious. Sony has had a lot of big software releases lately, Nintendo less so. You wouldn't like it if, on Super Mario galaxy 2 launch week I pointed out the ratio of Wii:PS3 software sales. So why would you do it to me?
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According to Wikipedia
Total PlayStation 2 games shipped as of March 31, 2007: 1.24 billion
Total Nintendo GameCube games sold as of December 31, 2009: 208.57 million
According to VGChartz
Total PS2 Hardware Sales as of May 1, 2010: 136,090,613
Total GC Hardware Sales as of May 1, 2010: 21,515,337
So, the GameCube won't really have changed at all in the last 5 months, so the attach rate would be ~9.7
The PS2, even if it didn't sell a single game since the end of March 2007, would be at over 9.11.
Based on current weekly sales, the PS2 would have sold at least 30 million since then, but it was actually way higher. In the last 2 years, Sony have shipped ~100 million units of software.
I'd hardly say that the attach rate of the PS2 compared with the GC is "laughable". You should try not to exaggerate. According to VGC, original XBox sold ~168 million units of software. With hardware sales of ~24 million, that would be an attach rate of 7. Even the best figures I can find for XBox are 24m HW/230m SW, which would still only be around 9.6. (http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=14535)
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