IGN: No used Games on Next Xbox

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zarx said:

Mendicate Bias said:

zarx said:

Mendicate Bias said:

just look at the 360's current attach ratio and you will know that is wrong

sorry

almost half of gamers only buy 1-3 games a year 

Two things.

One that graph represents only Europe, if you want a true representation of the 360's attach ration you need to add all countries, especially the US.

Second you don't seem to understand that an attach ratio is an average. Hence why many people buy less software than the attach ratio and conversely many buy more.

 

Attatch rate grow as consoles age because it's cumlative you see if the average gamer buys 1-3 game a year, then someone that brought a 360 in 2005 would have 7-21 games by 2012, an average gamer who brought the console in 2006 would have 6-18 etc add in the small minority of core gamers that buy 4+ games a year and you end up with the attach rate of ~10. If the majorty of gamers brought 5 games a year the attach rate would be closer to 20.

The UK is the country with the highest 360 attach rate BTW http://www.gamesthirst.com/2010/06/10/xbox-360-attach-rate-reigns-in-uk/

yeah i believe this with 1-3 games for most. i would say some of my friends only buy used games and maybe one new game per year.

the worldwide attach-ratio is like ~10.  i don't know how old the average 360 is but 10 games on average for a console 6.5 years on the market is really not much. there are gamers like me who have an attach ratio of 80 or so (lol?) but the average buys maybe 3 per year. i don't believe that many buy more than 3 new games per year.

Edit:

just to talk about numbers, in 2011, we had 33 million xbox 360's at the end of the year and 26 at the beginning in usa and they sold 88 million xbox 360 games which means almost 3 per console. in europe, 20 million at the end and 16 million 360's at the beginning and 42.5 sold games which means an average of 2.5 or so...(and for example there is kinect adventures included)