I have corrected the original data to show that it was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The FPS genre is not my fave (though I loved Black Ops), so I got confused.
@JoeTheBro
The math was simple -- total sales of game as a percent of total sales of console. The assumption is that if you bought a console, you had the console -- and thus you could buy any game ever released for that console. And while games do go "out of print" -- the big sellers generally stick around (and why I usually only looked at the biggest seller in each genre -- which tended to be the most recently released game).
@Soleron
True. Replacement consoles -- especially 360 -- would lead to fewer total possible sales. But it also would overstate the true number of consoles out there, a point which people don't often make when talking about sales of Console X overtaking Console Y. (Hopefully Microsoft did not count all the units it sent out as RRoD replacements as "sales" in its data.)
I kept it simple for this analysis since I don't have access to replacement ownership or common ownership data. And I did note that in my stated assumptions.
Even accounting for these issues, I feel the point that the stated "universal" gaming experiences as portrayed in gaming culture and media are not really so universal stands.
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