Posted by bakerboy | Real Talk with the HipHopGamer | Sunday 5 April 2009 9:05 pm Intro I recently wrote a piece that took a look at the percentage of the Playstation 3 install base that to this point have purchased Killzone 2. The results indicated that a meager 6% have purchased this title. Many concluded that this was a weak outcome for arguably the most anticipated title on any console this generation. These results also further enforced the notion that many Playstation 3 owners bought the console first and foremost as a blu-ray player and the fact that is also a games console is just extra. On that note, I decided to delve a little bit deeper in order to find definitive evidence that would support the notion that PS3’s are for the most part purchased as blu-ray players. Here are the results.

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 Note: Disregard those raw sales numbers to the left, as they were simply used as cell references to calculate the Xbox 360 percentages. Results In order to find a more definitive answer as to whether or not PS3 owners actually purchased less games than 360 owners, I decided to do a comparison of 9 of the most popular multiplatform games that have been released in roughly the last year. I did not account for incentives to buy one version over the other such as DLC, achievements, ect as all of those factors are beyond the scope of this analysis. Be that as it may, the results are interesting. As it turns out, a higher percentage of the PS3 install base bought multi-platform title when compared to the 360 version. What is much more surprising, this simple study shows that exactly 11.4% of each console base actually went out and purchased the most popular multiplatform titles of this generation. This should help to change the mind of those(including myself) that previously assumed that 360 owners purchased more games than PS3 owners.

good stuff there

edit: oh, wait... it's hiphopgamer, I don't believe anything he says

finally someone understands

why not beleive hiphopgamer?

if he used numbers then I've gotta believe him, but otherwise I don't like him

....Install percentages?

You're asking us to ignore raw numbers?

Do you not see the problem here?

how is it a problem ? this is not to show who got most overall, but how big a percentage of the console base got it.

ps3 users do buy games but thier purchasing trend is different to 360 owners.

imo 360 has a larger core audience eg. when 360 released those who jumped on board are mainly the core audience.

raw numbers can't be used because the 360 has a larger install base

But if that's the case, then all that shows is that the 360 userbase is more varied to a certain degree, and if you want to show who buys more games you don't look at nine cherry-picked titles, you look at their entire libraries, i.e. the console's wider atttach rates - and by that metric 360 owners unquestionably buy more games.

This whole exercise is so overly specific as to be pointless!