No point, just fulfilling Sheath's request for attach rates.Originally Posted by j_factor
No point, just fulfilling Sheath's request for attach rates.
I loved N64, and never bothered to get a PS1 until 2000 or so. The controller was great, and I loved alot of the games (especially the Zeldas, 1080, the Aki-produced wrestling games, and the Rush titles).
The Gamecube on the other hand, is where I kinda gave up on Nintendo. Just a total disappointment...
The GC has at least as many great games as the N64, although maybe not as many great exclusives.
I was a pretty die hard n64 fan back in the day, had over 100 games for it. I got very frustrated with Nintendo when it seemed like the stopped caring about the n64 people to work on there next system. Basically a big FU to us, in terms of games and support. I switched sides around 2000, I think perfect dart might have been my last new purchase.
I meant to ask you what sources you used for those numbers. Also, to get annual attach rates we need sales figures specific to those years.
To the point that attach rate is pointless except for investors. Attach rate also informs us how many games on average consumers bought. If you know somebody with 1000 PS2 games, and the attach rate is 10, we also know that there are *way* more people who never bought as much as 10 games.
I mentioned earlier in this thread that in my experience consumers don't purchase more than a handful of games and they tend to buy consoles for *one* game. These attach rates are evidence of that. In that sense it is a sort of blind poll where the users don't even have a chance of skewing the data.
Now, if they rented other games but never bought them did they like the game or just get their fill over a weekend? I only rented Shinobi III and Streets of Rage 2 back in the day and these are two of my favorite games of all time. But let's say that BlockBuster had them stocked in multiple copies across the country, that's still a ton of software units sold.
I imagine the sales for the PS1 past 2001 must have dramatically dropped. Any way to get a real breakdown per year? Nice to see the numbers for both though, even if you can't really make much of it without a real breakdown per year (instead of just some average across the life span. That number really doesn't represent much).
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Because the discussion is mildly interesting?
It's still alive because people want to fling statistics and X rates around instead of a conversation related to Nintendo's arrogancy.
That, and I don't find many of the other discussions very interesting at all. I might need to go back to notating old game magazines if this keeps up.
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Didn't he sell that N64 a short time ago on Ebay?
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