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Forums - Sales Discussion - Xbox 360 sold more than 750,000 consoles in the U.S. alone on Black Friday – exceeding internal forecasts

Damnit I shoulda put in a bid on the BF prediction thread. I figured about a 30% drop and that worked out to be 756K. Of 360 comes in at under 775 that will be the closes I've ever come to making an accurate HW sales prediction, and I never officially registered it!!! Grrrr.

Context: It's probably been said here already but the last time 360 had a sub 800K BF in the USA was 2009, and we all know what happened that year. 2008 was 731K. So while any time a console sells 750K in a week it's an impressive number, in terms of console life cycle it's a sure sign all Wii gen consoles are on the decline, even in their respective strongest markets. From a sales growth perspective the next gen can't really come fast enough for all the players.



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Dmick90 said:
ironmanDX said:
Dmick90 said:
ironmanDX said:
Dmick90 said:
Barozi said:
ugh could you please stop with these walls of text and delete the previous quotes ?


I don't recall asking for your opinion. 


It's a forum

on the internet......

 

 

not nazi camp.

K so you and your Nazi friends can mind your own business. 

It's a shame your username is almost accurate. Just remeber if you make another account, to remove the m next time.

How kind you are... Make sure you remember* how to spell next time before you talk to me again.


"K" I'll remember.....



S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
I'm just wondering why ps3 wasn't mentioned, just wii.
Is it because nintendo gave numbers already, and sony hasn't?


Sony is always like that. We always end up waiting a full a couple days to a week for a full release of info.

Except they never tell us anything lol.
Hard to be a Sony fan sometimes...T_T


Why? Because they dont like to boast?


Yeah because announcing that 70 million units a few weeks ago wasn't boasting right. All 3 companies do it. It is just the one who is in last place and no longer the console of choice in America doesn't have much to boast about.



platformmaster918 said:
Dmick90 said:

Need I remind you that the Playstation was created in retaliation to Nintendo when they backstabbed Sony. Sony didn't give a shit about making a game console either until Nintendo gave them the middle finger and left them high and dry at the altar. You think Sony gives two shits about you? You think Sony is your friend, lol. Sony puts hardware first over good software, that's why they are losing this gen. Microsoft focused on making fun games. Just look at the PS Move, no originality, no good games, and the sales validate that. They ripped off the Wiimote. What did they do? They created a plastic stick with a ball at the end of it, probably the lamest idea they ever conceived of. It's like the Sony execs sat around and were like fuck it let's throw this out there and see if people take the bait this time. But people weren't fooled. Microsoft atleast put some thought and new, innovative ideas into the Kinect. It just pisses me off because it seems Sony follows Nintendo and Microsoft in everything they do, they just copy and steal ideas from other companies. When Nintendo introduced the analogue stick and rumble pak on the N64 controller, Sony had to have sticks and rumble on their controller. Nintendo put motion gaming on the map and Sony had to copy that. Nintendo had Smash Bros, Sony had to copy that with Allstars Battle Royale. Sony tried to mimic Xbox Live with Playstation Plus. Microsoft had Halo and Sony brought out that turd Killzone. Microsoft had a home button on the controller, Sony had to have that too. Microsoft and Sega had triggers on the controller first, and Sony copied that. "Sony is walking out of this gen loaded with games"? What loads of games are you talking about? Last I checked their weren't a whole lot of good games on PS3.

Well I'll keep this list to just exclusives to counter you *cracks neck*

Ratchet and Clank Future (3 games), Thatgamecompany's exclusives (3 games), Uncharted (3 games), Resistance (3 games), LBP (2 games), Infamous (2 games), Heavenly Sword, MGS4, God of War 3, Heavy Rain, and Warhawk.

Let's compare to 360

Halo (4 games), Gears (3 games), Forza (4 games), Fable (2 games), L4D (2 games).

Gee that looks awfully favorable towards Sony.

You also forogot to mention KIllZone(2 game) and gran Turismo. Its obvious that when you have that many exclusives and variety, you will not be selling as much as limited offering by Microsoft. Microsoft has been milking and milking 360 gamers this generation with Halo/Fable combo in one year, and Gears and Forza the year after.



great numbers! can't wait to see Sony numbers!



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Just tagging, waiting for Sony numbers.



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S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
theprof00 said:
I'm just wondering why ps3 wasn't mentioned, just wii.
Is it because nintendo gave numbers already, and sony hasn't?


Sony is always like that. We always end up waiting a full a couple days to a week for a full release of info.

Except they never tell us anything lol.
Hard to be a Sony fan sometimes...T_T


Why? Because they dont like to boast?

Funny, they didn't mind boasting the last two generations when they weren't in last place.



Frank_kc said:

You also forogot to mention KIllZone(2 game) and gran Turismo. Its obvious that when you have that many exclusives and variety, you will not be selling as much as limited offering by Microsoft. Microsoft has been milking and milking 360 gamers this generation with Halo/Fable combo in one year, and Gears and Forza the year after.


I disagree. If the only games available to each console were exclusives, then this would matter. Third party games cover all genres; Playstation exclusives not selling as much has nothing to do with them having more exclusives, if they even have that many more.



leo-j said:
superchunk said:
maverick40 said:
the fact it sold more than the wii u is incredible. a 7 year old console outselling nexta gen console

Wow you're easily impressed. Imagine how you must of been when PS2 did that in 2005 (over 360) and 2006 (over at least Wii/PS3 and probably 360 too).

WiiU was limited stock (400k was what Nintendo shipped).
WiiU starts at $300. X360 starts at $150.

Really, it should've been expected by anyone.

I don't recall, but a lot of users(maybe you included) said that HD console sales would be down significantly after the WII u launched because it was nexgen.......

and PS2 destroyed everything for two years after everything launched due to the fact the PS2 was $129/$99 and still getting high quality AA/AAA ip

 

I mean Wii was $89.99 for black friday.. and sold 300K


d21lewis from September:  http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4792046

I also predicted 800,000 360's sold in the black friday prediction thread and 500,000 Wii U's sold.  http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4803852

And I normally fucking suck when it comes to predictions!