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kitler53 said:
without defining what "active user" means the graph showing the number of active users is pretty meaningless. horray for statistics, king of the misleadicircus.

"The active user percent tells us how often a person used their console out of the total amount of time the console could have been used during the measurement period."

 

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/stateofvgamer_040909_fnl.pdf

 

Thus, it's not about the number of "active users", but how often the console is used per user.

"The active user percent tells us how often a person used their console out of the total amount of
time the console could have been used during the measurement period"

 



A game I'm developing with some friends:

www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm

It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.