GC attach rate is incredible

125 * 6 = 750.  He meant if the DS had PS2 LTD, which it most likely will at some point.

Agreed. I didn't buy an N64 for a while amd just played Mario 64 and Kart 64 on a friend's system (with a little bit, but in retrospect not enough, Goldeneye 64 thrown in as well). I bought my N64 solely to play Ocarina of Time. I didn't buy a single other game except for Majora's Mask. Years later, I picked up Banjo Kazooie for $5 when my local video rental store went out of business and held an eliminate all stock sale.

So my attach rate, not counting that one super late to the fold add, was 2. Granted, I was playing video games very much at that point, but compare that to the 10 or so games I had for SNES, and the 8 I already have for Wii. I doubt I'm unique in this regard.

 Ah ok thanks. I thought he was referring solely to PS2 hardware software numbers in that reference. Meaning the software numbers the PS2 hardware has until now...

No I meant 95*6 > 500 million which is what NES/GB software totals reached.

PS2 numbers (125 million) with an attach rate of 6 is where the 750 million software number comes from. 

Is there a way to quantify time as another unit of measure along with attach ratio? Shelf life of a console plays a heavy role in the attach ratio such that if two consoles had the same attach ratio but console A was on the market for half the time, it would be the more impressive stat.

The number of years in the following chart is based on the numbers of years from console release until the last significant year of software sales.

NES - 8.1 games / 9 years
SNES - 7.7 games / 8 years
N64 - 6.8 games / 6 years
GC - 9.6 games / 6 years
Wii - 5.6 games / 1.5 years

You could then break it down further into the average number of games bought per year per console owner. I believe this gives a more comparable figure to work with when comparing various consoles.


NES - 8.1 games / 9 years = 0.9 per year
SNES - 7.7 games / 8 years = 0.96 per year
N64 - 6.8 games / 6 years = 1.13 per year
GC - 9.6 games / 6 years = 1.6 per year
Wii - 5.6 games / 1.4 years = 4.00 per year

wow. nice find source.

Viper---cool interpretation. Wii is definitely a software selling machine. It will easily best all of Nintendo's records.

Nintendo will report its shipmentls in ~three days time (Thursday in Japan) so we should get an update on the shipped attach ratio then...

Ok, I expect the attach rate grow

 True, Attach rates are supposed to increase as sales become a smaller percentage of the active base.  The Wii's number is actually pretty huge considering that.

It does have the highest Games sold per months owned ratio of the current gen consoles.