Your visiting a site about videogame sales, I think its safe to say that the people here are more prolific gamers than average and even then the poll shows quite an even distribution.  Used games also dont count towards the attach rate.

The Wii will have been out 4 years and I'll have bought 29 games at retail for 7.25 Wii games per year.

I've had the DS for a year less than that and bought 19 DS (6.33) and 8 GBA (2.66) games for a total of 27 games or 9 games a year.

I've had the PS3 for a year less than that and bought 10 games for 5 games per year.

Averaging over the 4 years it has been 66 games or 16.5 games/year.

EDIT: of those games, 11 Wii, 6 DS, 8GBA, and 8 PS3 games were either given to me or bought really cheap ($20 or under, under $10 for handhelds)

When I was young we would buy maybe 2 new games/year and that was it. For every one person who buys 15 new games/year it only takes 1 person buying only 2 games/year to drag the ratio down to 8.5 games/year. The way we got our games back then was borrowing from our friends or for $5 at a garage sale.

There are a lot more people who buy 2 games/year than there are who buy 15 games/year regardless of piracy. Even I don't buy 15 games/year for a single console as my highest number is for the Wii at 7.25 and that is including used game sales (not a lot for Wii for myself). That will probably start dropping this year, as I have only 6 tiles I'm interested in buying.

all the good ones.

^ Good answer.

I hear what Nordlead is saying but it still seems low to me.  The tie isn't a survey it's derived from the no. of consoles and games sold.  Numbers we're pretty sure of.  That means a tie of 10 over 5 years would be 2/yr. For every gamer buying 10/yr there are 10 buying 1?  My friend isn't the only one who will hit 1000 on 360 so there's another 200 owners buying 1/yr.?  Unrepaired consoles or ultra-casuals don't explain this.   To those quick to think this proves something about the 360, remember your fav. box is doing worse.  A sizable % of people must get a system and buy nothing but used games.  Or else mod it immediately.  A new game purchase is a rare event for most owners.  My mind is boggled. 

In my case it is around 20.

22 this year (X360 & PS3 combined).

to poor only own 5 in total.

next yr so fare there are only 16 games i want! i'm going to need to get them at a buyers discount or something?

I've bought 8 retail games so far this year. I'll probably end up with about 13-15... Which would mean ~50% of my game purchases in the final two months of the year...

I buy some three or four games (the cream of the crop - for instance, this year it would be FFXIII, GT5 and ME2) and pirate like fifteen less worthy titles.

I need to update - now it's 26 and yet I don't know if it will end here.