PS3 vs 360 in 2008

[Retrasado]

madskillz said:

Retrasado said:
madskillz, I might be able to agree with you except for the fact that PS3 owners buy more games than 360 owners. You don't believe me? Lets look at America (because the 360 has always been the most popular there) for last week.
The Xbox 360 has 11,377,532 consoles sold in NA and the PS3 has 4,466,281. 11,377,532/4,466,281 = 2.54742861 times as many consoles.
The Xbox 360 sold 1,138,997 units of software last week and the PS3 sold 547,336. 1,138,997/547,336 = 2.080983162 times as many software units.
With 2.547 times as many consoles in NA, the 360 sold 2.081 times as many software units. Thus, PS3 owners buy more games than 360 owners, leading us to the logical conclusion that most PS3 owners use their console primarily as a gaming machine.

@ Retrasado

Thanks for being rational. However, I was talking about worldwide sales, based on the overall software sales according to this site's numbers.

In the U.S., yeah, folks buy games, but I know of at least two folks who bought a PS3, thought it played PS2 games (LOL) and have only bought Blu Rays. Even on highdefdigest.com, folks often talk about using the PS3 as a Blu Ray player only. And a lot of them are selling them for standalone Blu Ray players.

@ NeoRatt

Thanks for the stats ... you totally rock.

 ok, my bad on that one. I'm just trying to show that even though a lot of people are buying the PS3 as a Blu-ray player. (check out this review) Also, the fact that their are less PS3s will tend to skew the attach ratio toward that console. Based on how close the ratios are, I think we are safe to assume that most 360 and PS3 (primarily gaming) owners buy about the same number of games.