i'm proud to say that I bought my copy new.  Monolith Soft deserves supporting.

Give me a second I need to scratch my undies.

How is the slowest selling consoling this generation the most "successful"? I don't get it. Fanboyism at its worst.

I agree with this, this generation has been dirt cheap and exactly why the Playstation 3 has become my system with the most games by a fair margin.  Back when I had to consistently spend $40-60 dollars I bought a few games a year.  Now?  I buy a dozen games a year because they are all $10-20 dollars.  This is within months of release, not years either.  Even pre-order deals for day one purchases if you're impatient can be found at $40-50 range.

Hand helds are different story...I can hardly ever find DS or 3DS games below $20, and often hold at $30-40 for years (ex: Mario and Pokemon).

Xbox was the most successful console of the previous generation too. Actually the most successful console of all time. 11.01 tie ratio. Xbox won the previous generation, it turns out.

Excellent application of data. If you think about it, the 360's actual tie ratio is probably even higher, since so many people wound up buying multiple 360s due to RROD and stuff like that.

This thread was blown way out of proportion.  Success is not measuered by units sold or games sold.  A business only cares about profits and as we have stated multiple times in this thread Nintendo was the most successful and second would be microsoft.  Don't bring in numbers like this in here when it shows nothing.

fail thread, number of games =/= satisfaction

Yes it does.

I'd say it's a direct result of there being so many Call of Duty and Halo titles on the system (a Halo fan already has five or six games by default, a CoD one has about seven) and the fact that, for most of the generation, multiplats were better on the 360 than on the PS3. That's been changing lately, but too late to make a real difference.

And I'd say the tie ratios decreased in an overall because much more people bought two or more platforms this gen than in the previous ones. And this generation had, by far, the most sales if you add up the three consoles. Wii was the winner in sales, but the other two only lose to it and the two PlayStations amongst all the home consoles.

I guess DS and PSP have relatively low tie ratios because plenty of people bought more than one of each, since both had many iterations. If you had 10 DS games and upgraded to a DSi, your tie ratio is now 5. Also, flash cards on DS and Memory Stick loading on PSP.