Looks Like The 360 "only" Sold about 350k in NA last week.

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mrstickball said:

Few notes:

1) Microsoft said that they sold 310,000 on Black Friday last year - US only
2) VGC includes numbers for Canada (7-8%) and Mexico (3-5%) along with US numbers
3) Microsoft "estimated" the 25% increase

So the question becomes:

What if the X360 actually increased more than 25% once everything was said & done?
What if the 310,000 didn't include weekly sales?

Depending on how one answers those 2 questions, you could get a number anywhere from 400,000 at the low end, to 500,000+ on the high end - well within what VGC has stated.

And for official numbers, lets use what's available, as per Microsoft's statements:

1. The X360 sold 310,000 on Black Friday in 2007...310,000

2. There was a 25% increase this year....387,500

3. There is another 12% increase for CAN and Mexico...434,000

So 434,000 would be a realilistic median for what Microsoft states that they sold during Black Friday.

 

 

There ya go, nice post.

@OP

You have to use consistancy. You are using the 25% increase against VGChartz numbers, not Microsofts.

If Microsoft said they sold 310,000 last year, and 25 percent more this year, on one day of the week, then 500,000 seems like a conservative estimate for the console, over the entire week.

In reality, like last year, ioi probably acually came in a little under what Microsoft would claim for the week.

Either way, whatever ioi comes up with will have a lot more evidence and justification than anything we can come up with.

 

Also, Microsoft said they beat the PS3 3-1. That ratio is very impressive, isn't it? Assuming Sony got some sort of boots from Black Friday, that would put them about about, what?

Well, if Sony gets a big boost from black friday, and Microsoft sells 3 times as many units, how exactly does it sell 400k, max? Did the PS3 not get a bump at all?