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goddog on 29 June 2009
Squilliam said:
It depends whether or not you count Arcade titles individually as well. I think according to MrStickballs numbers they would add a fair bit to the attach rate if counted and so would probably the missing sales from PAL.

maybe , looking at the million sellers, i know a few that used to be listed have been in the upper 900ks for ages, three weeks ago or  so was the first time we past the end of year numbers of million seller again, i noticed the ps3 is sufferign form the same issue, it might be on the wii, but havent really looked into that

 



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Aion on 29 June 2009

I hope it will i support the industry by buying new games.



 

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ironman on 29 June 2009
goddog said:
ironman said:
Keep_the_change said:
Maybe it will, but not 10...

But I have to ask this: Who fwckin' cares?

Wii attach rate is way below it and yet it sells more 3rd party software than Microsoft would ever dream of achieving with 360.

Attach Rate in the consoles is like Penis Measurement between young teenagers, only serves to show off...

The hypocracy in this post made me lol.

I think it has a very good chance to with NATAL and all the great games coming out. But we shall see.

you think NATAL will increase attach rate, i can only see it doing that if its is bundled, hell i do not see natal taking off at all unless it is bundled or you get a free year of live with it. 

I see it lowering attach rate, it has custom made games for it (assumption though i hope a control can be used on most of them) and with upper limit of 43 million consoles being out without (Im assuming it will come out in october 2010) it causes a problem. it could kill potential game sales by limiting purchasers, MS needs a trick or two up its sleave to get these out there, most peripherals have terrible attach rates  (its been ages since i read work on it, but in an old issue of EGM think last gen there was work stating that over 10% penitration of a peripheral was fantastic, though that might have been just third party)  

 

I will say this senario would require fewer games coming out using controller control vs natal in the years after natals release, and would be based on the idea all 360s after natals launch would have natal

 

 

Yes, I know it will. That and the "New Xbox360" Do you honestly think NATAL will not be bundled heavily?



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Mistershine on 29 June 2009
_RKO_ said:
invetedlotus123 said:

It's already 7.7 games sold per console, it is going a bit every month. Is it going to achieve 10 games per console wordwide or even more?

I know i'm enjoying my .7 of a game.

You like Assassins Creed, then?



Reasonable on 29 June 2009
Mistershine said:
_RKO_ said:
invetedlotus123 said:

It's already 7.7 games sold per console, it is going a bit every month. Is it going to achieve 10 games per console wordwide or even more?

I know i'm enjoying my .7 of a game.

You like Assassins Creed, then?

Very good...

I personally thought is was closer to .6 of a game myself.



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Zucas on 29 June 2009

Well as I said earlier 360 really is a curious case. It has nothing to do with the owners or userbase stereotypes. It is a second place console (noticeably) getting big brands and high profile games. Compare that to the original Xbox and/or Gamecube last generation. Both of those (aside from 1st party) weren't getting any of those. And if they were, the majority of sales would go the PS2 version as it was the "main version".

Not the case for the 360 compared to the Wii. It is getting most of the high profile and big branded games. Even if the Wii is getting them as well the 360 version is seen as the "main version". Now mix that with sales unfitting of a first place competitor and you get big software sales compared to smaller hardware sales. Nothing really that MS did but there are few reasons why. One, it came out first and got huge developer support. Second, it wasn't a huge transition from the way gaming used to be. Developers could adapt easy and flawlessly to bring their "old games" to the "newer versions". Finally, it's not as difficult and expensive to develop for compared to the PS3... if you were wondering why the PS3 didn't get that position.

So it is essentially gaining this high attach ration becuase of the reason for the big software and the reasons for the lower hardware sales. That doesn't mean it is selling more software than the Wii (which is apparent) but Wii is selling more hardware compared to that driving it's attach ratio down or not growing as fast. So I guess it is kinda the luck of the draw that the 360 is achieving this considering it has nothing to do with the console whatsoever. Or maybe it's just because Wii is such a radical change for development and DIDN'T come out first. Either way 360 is going to have some record attach rates because.