LAST WEEK we saw Microsoft spinning some figures in the mainstream press in order to project the make-believe hypotheses onto people's minds. Microsoft is all about lying, so this really deserves a rebuttal. Microsoft claims to have sold a million Xbox 360 units in Australia and 40 million overall, but what it does not say is that it loses literally billions of dollars in the process. It's easy to just sell something for which you suffer losses. Our reader Patrick has also put Microsoft's sales in perspective using the following chart:
| name | units sold | first produced | last produced | avg per year |
| Playstation 2 | 142.8 million | 2000 | - | 14.28 million |
| Nintendo DS | 125.13 million | 2004 | - | 20.85 million |
| GameBoy | 118.69 million | 1989 | 2001 | 9.89 million |
| Playstation | 102.49 million | 1994 | 2006 | 8.54 million |
| GBA | 81.47 million | 2001 | - | 9.05 million |
| Wii | 67.45 million | 2006 | - | 16.86 million |
| NES | 61.91 million | 1983 | 1995 | 5.15 million |
| PSP | 60.2 million | 2004 | - | 10.03 million |
| SNES | 49.10 million | 1990 | 1999 | 5.45 million |
| XBox 360 | 40 million | 2005 | - | 8 million |
| PS3 | 34 million | 2006 | - | 8.5 million |
Comments
Will
2010-04-28 14:20:42
Classic Microsoft Lock-In at work.
dyfet
2010-04-28 14:19:53
williami
2010-04-28 13:28:56
1.Nintendo DS 2.Wii 3.PS2 4.PSP 5.Game Boy 6.Game Boy Advance 7.PSOne 8.PS3 9.Xbox360 10.SNES 11.NES
See? The only things that have a lower avg per year are the old Nintendo consoles (SNES and NES). In other words, the Xbox360 isn't doing too well...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-04-28 14:51:39