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Like an Apple Store, the Microsoft Store is one giant room with very little in the way of an uninterrupted view of everything going on. The store I visited seemed to be divided into several key areas, one for Windows 7 Phones and the Zune, one for replica Chopard 27/8238-23 Ladie's watch laptops, one for software. The largest section, stretching from the front of the store to its distant back wall, is dedicated to the Xbox 360 and its games. That includes a half dozen play stations and two Kinect areas.In a store so packed with technology and gaming, the absence of anything Apple, Nintendo or Playstation is almost unsettling.

Personal shoppers wander the floor looking for folks to help, while Technical Advisors wait to answer questions and do on-site repairs at the Answer Desk. The store also hosts training classes and events.An employee tells me that Microsoft is in this whole retail store idea for the long-haul, hoping to expand to more locations as the existing seven take off. There are some neat things about the store, like the ability to get your Xbox replica Chopard 27/8945-421 Ladie's watch skinned with a print, photo, logo or design of your choice for $20. Also, I was told that the store has the ability to burn retail software on a disc on demand if they don't have a box copy on hand.The store was bustling during my visit there on a Saturday with folks playing games, looking over laptops and even quite a few people playing Dance Central in the back.

For those who kept up with this series of posts

For those who kept up with this series of posts, thanks for your support. I'm happy to see that some of you were inspired to start tracking stats yourself. For those who will miss it, I'm sorry it won't be continuing. Going into 2011, I feel this series has run its course, its points have been made and the labor involved in putting it together replica Chopard 27/8429-20 Watch would be best spent on new projects.Thanks for your support on this, everyone. And now, for one last time:Where's all this from? (AKA an explanation of the above chart for stat junkies only): In a move somewhat surprising for the generally secretive company, Nintendo makes all of this data public.

Any Wii owner can download the Nintendo Channel to their Wii and begin browsing for games. Any game that has been played enough times has usage stats listed for it, contributed by anyone who chose to share their data with the channel. The sample size that the channel tracks is pretty good, though it is obviously biased toward replica Chopard 27/8291-23 Ladie's watch users who hook up a Wii to the Internet. We calculate that sample size by looking at Wii Sports usage numbers, which show that more than 133 million sessions of that game have been played by Nintendo Channel users as of December 12 (up 5 million in the last month), for an average of 31.9 sessions per player.

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