2008 at Bruceongames

[Fastrabbit09]

Kasz216 said:

Just to note. If you take Months owned as your metric instead of a just straight consoles owned vs games sold you find out the Wii actually has the highest attach rate of the 3.

By taking total months owned you account for the 360's year long lead as early adopters are going to have more games because they've had more time to play through them.

It also accounts for the PS3's less then stellar sales after launch until just recently, which also helps there attach rate, as the consoles has been in the average PS3 owners hands longer then the average Wii games hands.

The Wii's attach rate just looks weaker because more and more people are buying it at higher levels every few months. The people who just got the system haven't had time to get bored with Wii Bowling let alone other games they might of picked up at launch.

Those people however are buying games and plenty when they get bored with their inital purchases, which you can see if you use the months owned metric instead.

You actually find that all three are pretty close to each other as well with the wii slightly ahead. So if the Wii truley does have a lot of casuals that don't buy many games it also must have a group that buys games more ferverently then 360 owners.

In reality however i think the truth is that casuals actually buy many more games then people give them credit for... as this is a new market of casual, not your 360 casual fan who only buys sports games and the occasional racing game or the guy that only buys like 2-3 JRPGs a year and that's it. 

do u have a source for all of this?  how do u look it up from a months owned perspective?