Pissing Contest: Let's Look At Each Console's Attach Rates, Shall We?

pretty cool little chart, i can see why 3rd parties like sony, and MS. i was actually surprised that MS had a higher first party attach rate then sony. though i shouldnt have been with halo, and forza both on market in the time fram

Are you currently or have smoked in the past few hours weed or any variation of it because Nintendo has the highest first party attach ratio.

oops, left off some crucial words there... no not stoned just very tired 

It's interesting that Wii has a higher attach rate than the PS3, even though it sells much more each week, which makes it harder to maintain attach rates. I'd love to see the PS2's attach rate after 23 weeks.

Well then lets look how many consoles sold at the 23 month stage and see how many games sold in total.

consoles sold Total first party Total 3rd party

Wii 35.46 85m 109m

360 12.8 18m 66m

PS3 16.5 15m 73m

So really 3rd party publishers should like the Wii much more because it has sold alot more games on it than the others. In reality the attach ratio is only good when all consoles have sold roughly the same. Its the total games that really matter to publishers.

Don't forget that the MS numbers are from 12 months ago. The article mentions the 360 currently has an attach rate of 8.1, up from the 6.6 it had at 23 months.

Benga, TWRoO made a comparison between software shipments of Ps2 and Wii. Here's the link in case you are interested.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=1406038

Don't wii numbers include wii play?

That may be part of the reason it has 1st party highest attach rate.

Just a thought.

This all makes sense to me..... But it doesn't really surprise me one bit...

 Wii Play, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, Brawl, ...    take your pick.