bugmenot on 26 July 2007
| johnsobas said: there is basically no chance of that happening although I didn't see many people saying it wouldn't happen. Halo is coming out September 25th right? 360 is probably barely gonna outsell Wii for one week if at all, and by the time Halo is released the Wii will probably have built up a lead of 500k or at least 300k. After seeing Nintendo's revised shipments it's gonna be impossible to not be ahead at the end of the year. Also when did Microsoft say they shipped 10.4 million? Wasn't that last october or something? By June they only shipped an extra 1.2 million removing all doubt if they stuffed the channel or not and silencing fanboys (although not many of them on this forum) saying 360 had sold 11 million (some were saying that last year). |
Their claim, made in January, was that they had sold 10.4 million Xbox360s into retail by the end of calander 2006 (known by observers as an example of 'channel stuffing'). This was to 'meet' their 'revised' claim in E3 2006 that they'd reach 10 million sales before the end of the year. The original claim was that they'd reach 10 million before the competition launched, and that first to 10 million has always won in previous generations. Presumably they were implying sold to consumers, as retail having possesion of 10 million boxes never guaranteed winning anything.
