Game Room - The August 2011 Report

i decided to move my monthly checks to earlier in the month.  i checked the leaderboards on August 3, 2011.  There is a slight wrinkle here in that i also checked on July 15th.  Apparently, although not being supported with new content for 6 months or so, games on the service continue to climb the leaderboard levels. 

If MSFT is looking for a good birthday present for me this year, how about a bunch of new content on Game Room (at least 5 game packs worth).


Observed Increases (July 15th):
* Breakout (2600): (+100)  
* City Bomber (+1,000)
* Cosmic Commuter (+100)
* Thunder Castle (+100)
* Jungler (+1,000)

Observed Increases (August 3rd):
* Asteroids (2600) (+1,000)
* Beamrider (+100)
* Devastators (+1,000)
* Galactic Warriors (+100)
* Star Strike (+10)
* Yie Ar Kung-Fu (+1,000)
* Keystone Kapers (+1,000)

Summary:
Over this period (after July 3rd) i observed 12 increases for a 6,510 increase in leaderboard totals.  Five of the increases noticed were on July 15th, the other 7 were on August 3rd. 

Not So Interesting Note:
Current Sales Estimates for Ranked Game by Publisher:
* Activistion: 34,739
* Atari: 148,083
* Intellivision: 24,118
* Konami: 147,964

Estimated Sales by Format
* Atari 2600: 55,469
* Arcade: 196,089
* Intellivision: 24,118

Estimated Sales by Game Pack (Average Per Ranked Game, truncated):
001: 10,738.64
002: 10,888.89
003: 3,986.11
004: 2,370.45
005: 1,536.11
006: 1,233.88
007: 1,680.10
008: 547.12
009: 1,175.14
010: 436.62
011: 1,137.66
012: 1,192.00
013: 897

Note: Average per game per game pack equals number of estimated ranked games sales (at 87.5% of leaderboard) divided by the number of ranked games in the game pack.  All sales estimates are leaderboard time 87.5%.  Atari 2600 sales are Activision + Atari 2600 games.  Arcade sales estimates are Atari Arcade + Konami.  Intellivision is Intellivision.