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4 Million games sold is quite good! |
LOL.....its 2 million dude.
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I see. That's not good at all. I thought they meant 2 million retail + 2 million digital.
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2 milion is very good for 1,2 milions consoles sold - previous gen handhelds had attach rates of around 5 lifetime.
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That's way lower than I expected, but I still don't think 2 million is very good for 1,2 million consoles. More like average or something, and average is not good. To me, at least.
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That's 1.67 games per person. That's 10 games for every 6 people. Considering that those ten people then need to also buy a memory card, with an average of 35$, then you're looking at a 250$ console with 100$ of accessories.
A successful attach rate at a store for accessories is 20%. That attach rate for accessories is 40%, and it's likely much higher considering people also bought cases, screen protectors, etc etc. People spent a LOT of money on this.
tl;dr attach rate for games is very high, and attach rate on the console is very high as well.
And let's be serious, you expected it to flop, right?
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I didn't expect it to flop, quite the opposite actually. With all the hype about Uncharted I expected most people to buy Uncharted along with at least one other game, so 1.67 per person is lower than what I expected.
I didn't think about the costs of the memory card and some additional accesoires though. Buying two games along with a fairly expensive console and some handhelds may be a bit too much to buy at once.
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What world do you live? 1.67 attach ratio is pretty high for launch and for handhelds is AMAZING... the normal is a attach ratio near or below 1 for launch plataforms.
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I live in the world where the people I know personally only buy a console or handheld if they buy at least two, but most of the time three or more games with it. I got my X360 with Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark Zero and my Wii with Wii Sports, Wii Play, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Red Steel and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz for example. I thought that was normal everywhere, but it seems I was wrong about that.
