MS Says Xbox 360 Sales Were "Not Low" In Japan

[DonFerrari]

kowenicki said:

freedquaker said:

kowenicki said:

freedquaker said:

One thing forgotten comparing the sales of this gen vs last is the time frame covered. Xbox was on sale for about 3 years. 360 has been on sale for 8 years now! So, no, there is virtually no significant increase in 360 sales!

Note : 1.7 million / 8 = about 212 K
or take one year out still
1.7 million / 7 = about 243 K
still very low!

That's not really how it works and besides the original xbox had stopped selling by the end of that 3 years, so it wouldn't have added that many in the next 5 years. 

No, no, that's exactly how it works, and you know what's funny? I totally agree with what you say, they did stop selling Xbox at the end of 3 years. So basically Whatever original Xbox sold, it sold in only 3 years. But this 1.7 million x360 sales are spread over 8 years. So on average, they'd have sold about  600-700 K at the same time frame. And boom, that is NO GROWTH whatsoever, forget how small or large it is!

No.

What I said was the xbox had ALREADY stopped being BOUGHT before it was taken off sale. So it had already reached its maximum possible lifetime sales. Even if it had been available for another 5 years, it wouldn't have sold any more.  It's really very very simple.

You're wrong. 

Why don't you consider that MS have cutted the Xbox prematurely everywhere, had the console delayed in Japan... and off topic Bill Gates said he would sell 500 millions Xbox if i'm not wrong (the guy was pretty delusional... this kind of expectation is like saying he would sell 100 billion Windows O/S in a generation).