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Xbox360 reaches 10 million units in the US
Velt | 3:04 PM on 05.14.2008 8 comments


An of course a bold statement from Microsoft Don Mattrick :
"History has shown us that the first company to reach 10 million in console sales wins the generation battle,"
Source

It is also interesting to see the trend in which news sources like Reuters are giving the videogame industry more and more space in their front pages or articles.

Of course the damn box keeps giving the consumers a lot of headaches with the infamous RRoD.



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ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 15:29
ArrestedDeveloper
I think they used the same quote when the 360 hit 10 million internationally. Anyway good for them, it seems 360 is becoming the choice of American consumers.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 15:41
braulio09
wait....wut about teh wii?
Ocified-Xboxer's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 16:50
Ocified-Xboxer
@ brainderailment - I would venture to guess that the number would have to decrease from year to year given that there is a large number of units already moved...Not to say that the RRoD haven't been an issue, but I really think the PS2 had such insane numbers because everyone owned at least 2...1 they bought originally, and the other one to replace the totally fucked original. I myself went through 5 PS2s.

I would think that the "winner" of a console war round would hinge more of the amount of software the console pushes out as sales, as opposed to actual consoles sold. It may seem slightly contradictory to the idea, but if I sell (on average)4 or 5 games per consoles sold, that would lead me to think that game companies would give higher support, and in turn force more consoles to be bought.

I hope that didn't sound too convoluted.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 17:46
Kyousuke Nanbu
@braulio

Its close but at 10 million yet.

The Wii doesn't even deserve to sell a million but Nintendo has the market cornered on stupid people who like to throw away their money, and you know what they say about stupid people in large groups.
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 17:50
Crunshii
if you actually compare yearly sold, xbox is quite behind both consoles. its like I start running 1 year before you, and when I reach the finish line, I claim: Im the WINNER!!! ALL FAIR AND SQUARE!!!

plz use that 10million profits to fix your shit ass console.
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/14/2008 20:39
Velt
In general terms I agree with you people, they should use the money to fix/redesign the 360... its been around for a long time and they are moving too little too late with the fixes.

A year ago they talked about moving the gpu to 65nm that should address some heating issues but they are not out there yet. I dont know about you, but it seems falcon has a great deal of problems... so now hey are saying that the next fix is going to be in another year, do you need a whole year to fix the problems a console has when the time of its launch was almost 3 years ago with all the data you gathered?
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