Microsoft's Xbox 360 Almost Last in Terms of Sales

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2010-04-28 12:44:21 UTC
Modified: 2010-04-28 12:44:21 UTC

Summary: An honest look at how Xbox 360 performs compared to other consoles

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

Patrick performed the above calculations; the raw data itself is sourced from Wikipedia. ⬆

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Will

2010-04-28 14:20:42

It's kinda funny/sad in a way. From what I've seen, a lot of people seem to be moving over to PS3 now that it has caught up in terms of library and the quality of multiplatform games. They know the Xbox 360 in its current state is always going to be a ticking time bomb of RROD. But there's also a lot of people who know that, and are on like their 6th Xbox. They know the machine is terrible, but they already invested a lot into their library before the RROD problem was well known and/or kept thinking that MS would get it right with the next motherboard revision, and now they are basically stuck with the Xbox.

Classic Microsoft Lock-In at work.
dyfet

2010-04-28 14:19:53

Given the amazingly high failure rate of the 360, how many of those 40 million were actually replacement units?
williami

2010-04-28 13:28:56

If this list were sorted by the avg. per year, it would be like this:

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

It never did well, except when it first launched (a year ahead of the rest of the pack).

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Almost Last in Terms of Sales

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