JoshuaJSlone
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Hey gang. Nothing new in this topic, just the compiled old. I've personally kept track of the weekly Media Create hardware numbers since the release of the DS and PSP. Nobody seemed to have a complete record of Media Create's numbers since they began tracking in 2002, but I compiled what I found. Having done that, I now share them. I swear it's a coincidence this thread is coming within a few hours of a similar NPD thread!
Other than the numbers I've kept track of for the past year and a half, I combined three sources to create this. GameScience was my main source for numbers from September 2003 through 2004. Where they had gaps, or just didn't exist yet, I went to the GameFront archives, but their data only goes back to August 2002. Before that I've got some data saved in a text file that must have come from GAF, though I didn't make note of who or where it came from. It has incomplete data from February 2002 to August 2003.
With all this combined, I've got... a splotchy mess with a lot of holes and rounding. Sometimes a system stops showing up on the chart, then reappears. Far from complete, so if you know another good source or see a mistake in here, a notice would be appreciated. In a few places gaps on the weekly charts could probably be estimated by using the YTD values on GameScience or GameFront, but for the purposes of this sharing I didn't want to mix up my own interpolation with the original data.
I didn't include the YTD information for a few reasons. One being that just adding together the rounded weeklies gets you pretty close the rounded YTDs. As long as we don't have the single digit values anyway, it seems close enough. Also, in some of those places where GameFront or GameScience had a gap and then resumed, their YTD numbers ceased to match up anyway.
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Other than the numbers I've kept track of for the past year and a half, I combined three sources to create this. GameScience was my main source for numbers from September 2003 through 2004. Where they had gaps, or just didn't exist yet, I went to the GameFront archives, but their data only goes back to August 2002. Before that I've got some data saved in a text file that must have come from GAF, though I didn't make note of who or where it came from. It has incomplete data from February 2002 to August 2003.
With all this combined, I've got... a splotchy mess with a lot of holes and rounding. Sometimes a system stops showing up on the chart, then reappears. Far from complete, so if you know another good source or see a mistake in here, a notice would be appreciated. In a few places gaps on the weekly charts could probably be estimated by using the YTD values on GameScience or GameFront, but for the purposes of this sharing I didn't want to mix up my own interpolation with the original data.
I didn't include the YTD information for a few reasons. One being that just adding together the rounded weeklies gets you pretty close the rounded YTDs. As long as we don't have the single digit values anyway, it seems close enough. Also, in some of those places where GameFront or GameScience had a gap and then resumed, their YTD numbers ceased to match up anyway.
Data in comma-ful TXT format for easy modifying and pasting into various programs
Data in the OpenOffice.org 1.1 format
Data in bigass HTML format exported from OpenOffice.org
