PS3 has a higher attach rate than Xbox 360, says Sony

I guarantee Psychotext has an erection right now.

The Wii has a lower attach rate than either PS3 and the 360. It’s sold more units than the two of them combined.

Churnalism as its best.

not michael o’connor at his best tho. that was WEAK.

@Shatner – I was wondering what caused it… I hadn’t even seen the post but I could sense that there were stats to be devoured!

Interestingly, if you consider dates as part of the equation like Dille has then the Wii actually has the highest attach rate of all the consoles. Also… “Xbox 360 should be selling twice as many software units as PS3 if attach rates were equal” is so much bollocks it’s just untrue. If it really worked like that then the top games on the PS2 would have been selling upwards of 50m.

This could possibly be explained purely on a basis of “360 owners prefer x games, PS3 owners prefer y games”?

“not michael o’connor at his best tho. that was WEAK.”

What?

Christ, Sony are on the war path today aren’t they!

I wonder if the opposite story would be true if they chose shooters rather than action-adventures? I think Shooters are much more at home on 360 (better controller & more hardcore sensibility) rather than action adventures which are more Playstation (from PS1/PS2 era days, slightly less hardcore genre).

Action adventures are “slightly less hardcore” then shooters? O RLY?

Oh look, Sony on the warpath with a lot of gobbing off about things which aren’t “solid data on sales numbers” a few days before NPD is out.

They’ve just started early this month.

I like how people just assume Sony reps e-mail this stuff to the games media for no reason and completely forget that they’re actually responding to questions.

Gekidami said: I like how people just assume Sony reps e-mail this stuff to the games media for no reason and completely forget that they’re actually responding to questions.

That is the smartest thing anyone has said on this site in a very long time

Then can someone please stop asking Sony questions in order for them to ‘respond’ and create ‘news’?

That would be awesome.

Thanks.

Oh and thanks again.

Yes of course, none of the console vendors actually specifically time these interviews at all. It’s totally up to the media. I expect more totally selective stats to be included in the NPD press releases (which they send out themselves) on Thursday. Funny that.

It’s also funny they haven’t mentioned what a great attach rate Killzone 2 is attracting which was supposed to sell loads this month as it was only on sale for 2 days last month.

Wow Peter Dille is Sony’s Shane Kim.

I expect they will get around to the Killzone 2 attach rate. They can’t get us all excited all at once.

Or Aaron Greenberg, No_PUding

It’s just tit for tat PR bullshit in response to earlier tit for tat PR bullshit from the other lot. There is also a crazy conspiracy theory that we are just being buttered up to see how great Killzone 2 sales are relative to the PS3 install base so we can all be happy it’s not doing that bad after all.

Which is wonderful insecurity on Sony’s part because it’s probably jogging along very nicely but because it won’t live up to the ludicrous expectations of half the internet there will be a mass inquest on Friday come what may.

I like how deftangel, grasping at absolutely nothing but his own guesswork and assumptions, is holding corporations to task over numbers that might not support his theories.

Notice how nobody has mentioned any conspiracy theories other than him!

It’s good to see that straw men are still gainfully employed in these harsh economic times.

Who’d have thunk it…it’s a whole page worth of guesswork and theories! Heaven forbid I actually chip in with my own. I’m not paid for it mind, my second name isn’t Pachter

Innocent victims are also thriving during the recession.

Hang on, NPD due?…..Greenberg will open his trap any day now, and he will not close it for a at least a week.

And the attach rates for all games? Not quoted I see.

So Sony has a higher attach rate for multi platform AAA games. What this could be argued to show is that the 360 has a more diverse selection of games to choose from and PS3 owners have to jump on whatever big game comes along. Anyway, total attach rates of over 8 for the 360 and pushing 6 for the PS3 make the numbers quoted here quite insignificant.

Attach rate for the Wii isn’t really an issue since the hardware sells at a profit.

“Attach rate for the Wii isn’t really an issue since the hardware sells at a profit.”

Yes! I’m sure third party publishers totally sympathise with that analysis.

Jeez. The comments some people make really say a lot about their grasp of the situation. Heh. I love watching these anonymous ‘experts’ gesticulating and posturing authoritatively whilst they say stupid things. More please.

Will this mean 360fuckheads will stop banging the attchrate drum? In that case I’m grateful.

Attach rates mean sweet fuck all.

Attach rates are brilliant! You can use them for good, or evil. In one context a large attach rate is a good thing, in another it’s a bad thing. They’re the ultimate internet obfuscation!

“If you factor in Xbox 360’s longer time in the marketplace and larger install base, Xbox 360 should be selling twice as many software units as PS3 if attach rates were equal”

FAIL.

The entire premise for this wild claim is completely wrong in the first place.

There are way too many factors that he seems to have conveniently thrown out of the window.

Factors such as how previous versions of software affects the sale of sequels, other competing titles released similtaneously on a particular format, console specific marketing, etc, etc, etc…

The only people who really have a reason to care about attach rates are the developers in the early stages of a consoles’ life span, because I serioiusly doubt that Rockstar is looking at 3.3m units of GTA IV on 360 and 1.9m units on PS3 and saying to themselves… ‘Hey, PS3 has a higher attach rate! Lets focus all our efforts on it!!’

Looks like Tonka’s call goes unanswered.

“Attach rates mean sweet fuck all”

Odd… I thought they meant how many games have been sold on average per console. As long as you know how to look past the spin they’re a fairly good indicator of software sales on each system.