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Yes, but how many of those 360 sales were actually repeat sales because the owner's previous 360 decided to red-ring?

answer: At least one.

Not sure how that makes much of a difference, other than the fact that they still chose to purchase a 360 over the PS3 or Wii U after such a hardware failure.

It does make a difference, since the person is already locked-in by owning games for the 360.

The 360 has the highest games-to-console attach rate of any system ever. If repeat buyers are a significant portion of 360 sales then the 360's attach rate would be absolutely insane. Therefore it's easy to reason that broken consoles make up a very small percentage of total units sold.

I don't follow the video game industry at all, so forgive my ignorance. After looking up 'attach rate', I'm not sure I agree with you, though I do believe I follow your logic.

Playing devils advocate they are locked-in to a 7+ year old platform. A fact I've heard being lamented a lot lately.

I would imagine there would be a lot of gamers that like the idea of newer tech / concepts and would get the Wii U.

That said, the Wii U controls are just... odd.

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