Xbox division profit nearly doubles, 34 million 360s sold!?

[haxxiy]

newbie3 said:

haxxiy said:
31.4 + 2.1 = 33.5

33.5m shipped until September's end according to MS itself, look at their latest 2009 report - http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=4487

There is no way MS got 500k X360's sold from Oct 1 and still had the usual 500k in stock. If such, MS shipped a million consoles in twenty days and thus it's averaging 333k a week...

Ummm yes actually they probably did, this is holiday time, very big sales. Or preparing for very big sales in any case.

 

Last Oct-Dec quarter they shipped 6m. That's 2m/month, granted I'm sure it was Dec weighted...or maybe Nov weighted depending on lead time.

You got it wrong. That MS executive claimed over 34m X360s sold thus far. Look, MS shipped 2.1 million consoles from july until september which brought the total of X360s shipped lifetime all the way up to 33.5 million. These are consoles shipped still - around 500k-1m of shipped figures remain at retailers, distributors and so on. So, contradiciting his company's financial report, he said X360 sold 3m in this period, over 140% of it's own shipping numbers. This is no different from when some Sony dude claimed over 140m PS2s sold when the shipped numbers fell 7m or such from it, back in 2007 or the like.