MEANINGFUL Attach Rate Comparisons!!!

[Biggerboat]

Bodhesatva said:

Biggerboat said:

Bodhesatva said:

This will work in the opposite way attach rates do: it will favor systems selling well over systems selling poorly, and newer systems over older systems.

Thus, it is not surprising that the order here is Wii - PS3 - 360. I don't want to discount the significance of this analysis -- I made my own thread about PS3/Wii software selling better than they're given credit for -- but I think it's worth noting that these results are not unsurprising and don't necessarily mean the Wii is actually better for software sales.

I don't really understand where you're coming from. Surely it favours no system as it's taking install base and average time of ownership out of the equation. If what you say is true regarding better selling consoles benefitting from this approach then how come PS3 comes out on top when it has been selling significantly less that 360 and Wii of recent??

If I'm missing something please explain further.

If a system is selling well, it tends to sell more software than it otherwise would. When people buy systems, they tend to buy a lot of games to start with.

So for example, the 360 started its life with an attach rate of nearly 4. Four! That's the highest in history, in fact. If we were to do this analysis in the first month of the 360's lifespan, the tallies would look something lke this:

Average time of system ownership: 1 month
Games purchased per month: 4

It would look absurd, but that's because the system had 100 percent new owners who were all buying new games to go with their system. As time goes on, they tend to buy less games/month, so the average is weighted down.

I do see what you're saying now, though think the difference it makes is negligible when compared to the other methods of tracking attach rates. The console which would lose out due to this process is 360 due to it being an older system but then it also benefits from this position as a lot of it's games have had time to be discounted and re-released as platinum(or whatever the 360 equivalent is) which obviously gives it's software sales a boost over the Wii and PS3 which are too young to have a budget range(or if they do already, not one of significance). So all in all I think this comparison is as accurate as we're going to get in the 'who's console sells more games per console' argument.

It would be interesting to do this again next holiday season as as the systems age this discrepency will cease to be of any real significance.

Thanks for your input!