^^^ He was just commenting how beastly the xbox 360 is doing this generation for software sales as in comparason for last gen. They have the highest tie ratio than any other console THIS gen

Add a star behind Virtua Fighter 5 on 360, that was late.

Nice chart but do we really need a 500th thread THIS week comparing software sales between 360 and PS3? Why don't we include Wii in there for once?

Actually there's generally more software sold per week per console on the PS3 than on the 360. Thus if the install bases grow closer, the total software sales will too, or we might even have an inversion. What is certain is that the 360 is more focused, as in it sells really well what it sells well.

For the sake of the analysis, the picture is brigther for the PS3 if you take out the late releases like Bioshock and Oblivion. With the new Chart gebx did, it becomes clear that the PS3 is not that far behind, if you take the late titles of the picture. In some cases the PS3 overcome the userbase difference(22,86/30,87=42,5%/57,5% ).

Off course, the X360 is still a software beast , any way you look at it, but my point is that the PS3 is not that weak in the software front, as some people think

LOL...You people and attach rates....you almost sound like it that really makes a difference

The attach rate is what you use if you want to make an educated guess on what would happen to software sales if hardware sales were tied, as in the post i replied to. You are free to use your cat's age instead for your forecasts, if you don't see the difference :)

Attachment rates are a big deal but look at the games per console ratios. It isn't even close...

Everyone knows GAMES are where companies make their money. Not Systems. GAMES

Sorry...But I don't get paid to Forecast game sales....Nor do I find Making Hypothesis about games sales when for a certain console the hardware are not there useful....

The game/console ratio is skewed that way because the 360 has been on the market longer. If you compute the software sales per week of console ownership i.e. how many games are sold per week to each console owner you get Wii>PS3>360 (or at least that's what you got the last time I calculated it, here's a thread by theRepublic with some nice charts). This indicator is actually more significative for the business people than the total tie ratio because it allows to project average sales per week on each console's install base right now.

Of course with the current install bases I can still expect 360 to sell more software in absolute, and you're right that it's what really brings the money.

@Zizzla

me neither, but you'll have to tell Zen. I just pointed out something about his hypothetical scenario.