Fri, Mar 20, 2009 | 18:27 GMT
February NPD: 360 up 53% year-over-year, attach rate at 8.2, says Microsoft
Microsoft’s finally done its bragging about last night’s NPD release.
According to February’s results, Microsoft has a 53 percent year-over-year spike in Xbox 360 sales with the console selling 391,000 units.
The company’s said February’s 53 percent year-on-year sales spike was due to competitive pricing and available software. Rather obviously.
Metacritic scores show that 135 Xbox 360 games score 80 or higher, with PS3 games only generating higher scores on 94 titles, claimed the firm.
Third-party sales on Xbox 360 raked in $162 million in February with users owning 8.2 titles each, thus leading Microsoft to claim the “highest attach rate among current-gen consoles”. Last month, the 360 attach rate was 8.1.
15 comments
#1
SERAPHEMZ
20/03/09, 7:10 pm
Blah…
Didnt i just read the other day that only like 13% of 360 games scored 85 or higher while 38% scored less than that?
So from that 135 games 87 of them pretty much sucked.
I love they way Microsoft spins…
#2
Psychotext
20/03/09, 7:16 pm
Games that score 80%-90% suck?
#3
SERAPHEMZ
20/03/09, 7:17 pm
Not saying that for sure, ” pretty much “
#4
Psychotext
20/03/09, 7:24 pm
Good news for you then… you’ve got access to about 20 games that “pretty much” don’t suck this gen (those that scored above 90%).
\o/
#5
Psychotext
20/03/09, 7:28 pm
Oh, and just to show what an utterly retarded metric it is… a quick look on metacritic for the PS2 shows that only 3.3% of its games scored 90% or more.
Yeah…
#6
Shatner
20/03/09, 7:39 pm
ilovethewayPTabitrarilydismissesnumbersthatdontsuithisgoalslol
#7
Psychotext
20/03/09, 7:44 pm
Hello Mr Troll. What’s my goal here then? Other than to show that it’s a stupid metric, unless you thought the PS2 was shit for software?
Or perhaps you agree that games rated 80-90% pretty much suck?
Though I think out of all of the options it’s probably just more likely you’re here to pick a fight with a poster… given that’s what you do.
#8
SERAPHEMZ
20/03/09, 8:30 pm
Mr Non Troll, those 87 games that i was rferring to were all rated below 85 %according to the article.
#9
Shatner
20/03/09, 8:57 pm
namecallingmakesyousoundsoreasonableandrationallol
butidoenjoyhowyoudismissnumbersthatdontserveyourconclusionlol
themoreyoudoit,themorei’llpointitout.sorryifthatannoysyoulol
#10
Psychotext
20/03/09, 9:24 pm
My apologies SERAPHEMZ, I just looked at the article you’re talking about. I’ll have a look at the equivalent numbers later (Metacritic is freaking out a bit).
#11
Syrok
20/03/09, 9:28 pm
I’m disappointed that you rely on metacritic for that. I always had the image of you having every single piece of sales information etc. in several neatly stacked, alphabetically ordered files next to your desk.
#12
Psychotext
20/03/09, 9:30 pm
I’m away from my desk damnit! I’m naked without my stats spreadsheets.
#13
SERAPHEMZ
20/03/09, 9:31 pm
Well both articles are based on Metacritic information. Apples to Apples.
Im sure his data is more accurtate.
#14
Psychotext
20/03/09, 10:27 pm
I was being sarcastic Seraphemz. Anyway, just did the numbers quickly on Metacritic. I’m not going to spend ages like Edge did and remove special editions etc so obviously their data is much better… this is just an indication. Oh, and reading the article, apparently they didn’t use Metacritic anyway…
Games scoring 85% or above (percent of all games)
PS2: 152 (7.8%)
360: 59 (9.4%)
PS3: 43 (12.5%)
Wii: 16 (2.9%)
Games scoring 80% or above (percent of all games)
PS2: 326 (16.6%)
360: 136 (21.6%)
PS3: 96 (28.0%)
Wii: 43 (7.7%)
Games scoring 65% or below (percent of all games)
PS2: 978 (50.0%)
Wii: 380 (68.0%)
360: 282 (44.8%)
PS3: 133 (38.8%)
Metacritic Totals
PS2: 1958
360: 630
Wii: 559
PS3: 343
#15
Shatner
20/03/09, 11:08 pm
letshearitforthewiilol