Monty on 11 January 2007
Alvar said:
Stromprophet said:
No. It did not do this so much sooner. Here is an article from sales thru September of last year. 360 surpassed Original box in October.
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=14095
Thats stats from analysts who follow this info. And it's not ahrd to see why. When original box launched they sold 1.5 million units in November/December in the US in 2001. In 2005 November/December they only sold 600,000 units. (These are US sales of course), but that's a lot of units to catch up. And eventually they did. But not until recently.
For a comparison according to NPD reports Original Box sold 470,000 November 2002 (year after launch). 360 511k November 2006 (year after launch). It's not as though it's blowing the original figures away.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the original xbox have a price cut before then?
if that was the case, then you could pretty much argue that the 360 is "blowing the original figures away". x360 sales would probably increase from a price-cut.
if the original didnt have the price cut until later, then ignore this post, I'm too freeking lazy to check now that I'm done writing this.
It did have a price cut after 6 months (in May of 2002) to $199.
Anyhow, my original statement still stands and was correct... The Xbox 360 shipped 10 million in 13 months, the Xbox 1 did so in 19 months.
Actually, upon checking it was closer to 21 months... they announced in July 2003 they had sold (shipped) 9.4 million units of the Xbox. That would be the 20 month mark, so it likely took 21 months.
http://vgmwatch.com/?p=357
