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More NPD average ownership stuff.  This shows the three current consoles in the US as time really exists.

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And here if they'd all launched in the same month.

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Wii set a new record for November sales in the US by a pretty hefty margin; this shows it in comparison with the previous bests.

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Shows that while X360 had a userbase advantage over the combined PS3+Wii early on (launching a year earlier will do that), PS3+Wii's later combined advantage had become big enough to cancel it out by now.  The light blue area is area beneath both lines, which since it applies equally to both groups can be safely ignored while instead concentrating on the sections that exclusively count to one group or the other.

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There was a thread about modifying images for game boxes with anagrams.  These are mine.  Animal Crossing: City Folk becomes Ciroc Loftin: Slaying Mask, while the introduction of a Chrono Cross character turns Chrono Trigger into Rogering Torch.  Yeah, I know Cirroc Lofton isn't spelled Ciroc Loftin, but I hope it's close enough for a laugh.

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When the new Wii "Tales of" game was announced in Japan, the English portion of data had a typo talking about the whole series as the "Tales of seriese".  I chose to interpret that as the actual name of the new game, and created a box art for it with a modified version of one of the few screen shots.

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This presents an alternate reality where Wii launched a year earlier than X360/PS3, rather than X360 launching a year before PS3/Wii.  Basically to show that though launch orders differ, otherwise things might look a lot like charts of PS2 launching a year before Xbox/GCN.