Look at these interesting numbers for the first Xbox....
Even the born-doomed first Xbox managed to be well up YOY in its 3rd year
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2003 to 03rd Jan 2004:
|
Console |
XB |
|
Total |
5,660,219 |
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Jan 2004 to 01st Jan 2005:
|
Console |
XB |
|
Total |
6,829,375 |
It was certainly selling at mass-market price during 2003 and 2004. How did it manage to outsell 2003 by 1.2 million total units? price-cut of course. There's nothing special about selling more because of a price-cut, that's just expected. In the case of a strong contender and strong 30 million seller like the 360 in its 4th year (with a mass-market price since the beginning), doing less than 1 million YOY after a price-cut is laughable.
