NPD's latest software tie ratios for consoles

I'd like to see the numbers after the first round of Player's Choice titles come out (if they ever do). A round of A-list games selling at a discount (instead of the current weirdness where Marvel Ultimate Alliance is still $50 most places). Games are expensive, and I'm on a budget. I can't buy all my games at full price.

@Kenology you're absolutely right, Wii sport is
not taken into account, only Wii play. Wii play takes
up a large chunk of the ratio though.
Would you consider it fair if microsoft and/or sony would include pong with their joypads and the NPD took
that into account for the ratio??

@ voodoo_craig
what I'm saying is that the 360's bought in the 1st year probably have an ratio of around 12 by now
(I've got 16 games for my 360). This boosts the overall ratio. That's why the PS3 vs 360 ratio isn't a fair comparison

@laughing target
the guncon is a peripheral specifically used for time crises. It's worthless without the game. Just like the instruments in Rockband. The Wiimote can be used for all games and is a lot more valuable then Wii Play.

Saying people buy Wii play for the game and not the Wiimote is like saying that people buy the Ipod for the earplugs and not the Ipod.

I hate that gamers are now divided into factions. And sales-age boils down to the finger points a giggles of little prissy schoolgirls.

Ugh, I'm sick of people saying "why argue about who's doing better". It's a console war! You pick your favourite and have fun rooting for your guy. Who cares if it's a corporation, everybody loves a competition, and when it comes to gaming this is the most high profile and important one around.

Party poopers, let us have our fun. It may be a bit silly rooting for one gaming corporation over the other, but it's still less dumb than American Idol!

I was surprised at first that the DS attach rate is only 4.7. Then I remembered I own two DS's, one Phat and one Lite >_

People are buying games for their consoles?? Whoa.

Does this information include PSN/XBLA/VC/WW sales or is it limited to software shipped out on physical media only?

It'd be interesting to see attach rate per year. Wii vs. PS3 wouldn't change much, but supposedly 360's not that far ahead of the PS3.

More interestingly, it might mean that the Wii had a better attach rate for 2007 than the 360.

I wonder how high the attach rate will be if you include the online games?

I'd have been really surprised if BS3 were able to beat the 360's attach rate but as we can see I wasn't surprised because it even fell behind the Wii.

hmmm

Okay. But paying for a beta is no better than paying for a demo. It might actually be worse. If GT5:P purchasers eventually get the full content of GT5 then I will stand corrected, but I'm willing to wager that absolutely will not happen.

Huh, but aren't the PS3 fans running around saying that nobody buys Wii games? Yet the attach rate is higher than their system. I think the PS3 crowd are going mad!

Honestly, I think this is good news for everyone. The PS3's game lineup was pretty weak until fall of last year, and I'm sure *some* people do just buy it as a blu-ray player (though no one has any kind of statistics on that, my guess is that it's less than 10% of sales All in all, I'd say 4.6 is pretty decent for the platform that had to compete against a console that had been out for a year before it, and the juggernaut that is the Wii.

I don't really understand why analysts use the "tie ratio". Yearly game sales and yearly console sales are two almost completely unrelated statistics. So, if you sell less hardware, it's a good thing? What?

They should just use ratio of games sold to total console sales. You know, like average number of games bought per year per console owner. That's a much more relevant number.