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

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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. 

You are saying exactly the same thing I am saying, and I am wrong? Please enlighten me! Or maybe you are not reading what I am saying. Let me articulate what I am saying.

Xbox sold "x" amount in 3 years. The average sale is x / 3

360 sold "y" amount in 8 years. The average sale is y / 8

 

To get the averages (x/3 or y/8), we need those x and y's. Well, This site starts tracking data from 2004 onwards (and Xbox was pretty much dead in 2005), so I will go ahead and make a reasonable estimate that Xbox sold around 700 K in Japan in 3 years. So

x = 700 K, x/3 = 233.33 K  (average annual Xbox sales in Japan)

Xbox 360 sales are around 1.7 million. So,

y = 1700 K, y/8 = 212.5 K  (average annual 360 sales in Japan)

 

Well, now that you look at the AVERAGE sales figure and see NO SIGNIFICANT change.

Now, got it?

Please don't tell me that I am wrong but stating exactly the same stuff AGAIN!