Impossible. 48 million actual sold to consumers is good enough and would be a record year for Xbox, 11 million sold in one year.

What does that mean? MS only tells shipped numbers.

Earlier in the year they said 40.2 million consoles were sold, and VG Chartz had I beleive 38.7 million?

No it hasn't, 2008 was it's best year at 11.01 million. However, 6.55 million of those sales in 2008 came from the 4 month period at the end of the year (Sept-Dec). The 360 currently has sold 5.84 million units in the first 8 months of the year, and is looking to have it's strongest holiday yet. With the Slim Effect, Halo: Reach, Kinect, and Fable 3, 2010 is looking like the best fall 360 has had since 2007.

I mean before 2009 PS3's record sales was 9.72 million, and mainly because of the PS3 Slim, sales sky rocketed. Sales don't have to sky rocket for the 360 to surpass PS3's strongest year, and the 50 million point. The 360 just has to beat it's 2008 fall, and with the Slim Effect, a moderatly hyped peripheral, and what is most likely the best selling HD exclusive yet, it can probably jump well over 13 million yearly sales (and thus over 50 million total sales, maybe even 51 million).

I'm skeptical, I think 49 million is a safe assumption, 50 million is likely, but very dependant on Kinect and Halo, and 51 million will only happen if Halo, Fable, and Kinect are all well received, especially Kinect. 52 million is pushing it, possible, but very unlikly, Kinect will have to really surprise me.

No it hasn't, 2008 was it's best year at 11.01 million. However, 6.55 million of those sales in 2008 came from the 4 month period at the end of the year (Sept-Dec). The 360 currently has sold 5.84 million units in the first 8 months of the year, and is looking to have it's strongest holiday yet. With the Slim Effect, Halo: Reach, Kinect, and Fable 3, 2010 is looking like the best fall 360 has had since 2007.

I mean before 2009 PS3's record sales was 9.72 million, and mainly because of the PS3 Slim, sales sky rocketed. Sales don't have to sky rocket for the 360 to surpass PS3's strongest year, and the 50 million point. The 360 just has to beat it's 2008 fall, and with the Slim Effect, a moderatly hyped peripheral, and what is most likely the best selling HD exclusive yet, it can probably jump well over 13 million yearly sales (and thus over 50 million total sales, maybe even 51 million).

I'm skeptical, I think 49 million is a safe assumption, 50 million is likely, but very dependant on Kinect and Halo, and 51 million will only happen if Halo, Fable, and Kinect are all well received, especially Kinect. 52 million is pushing it, possible, but very unlikly, Kinect will have to really surprise me.

They meant shipped. They always do. (technically shipped consoles are also sold, just not necessarily all the way to the consumer but at least they're sold to the retailers)

Look who's talking, your avatar is "xbox suff". So, if I go by your fanboy logic, your opinion isn't better than the ones from "people with ps stuff in their sig".

Hey if they said sold, I beleive sold. Do you have any solid reasoning to beleive otherwise, or should I take every manufacturers sold consoles as shipped.

To be fair they undertrack the Wii by up to 500k, and PS3's recently had that sales adjustment giving them a few 100k more consoles sold, so I don't think they are undertracked by much more then Wii.

Slim PS3 didn't boost salesd all that much. I think PS3 sales in Q4 2009 would have been fairly similar if the phat remained and it got the $100 price cut. I think slim gave it somewhat of an extra push, but it was at least 85% price cut that did it. 360s will translate to higher 360 sales than 2009, but I would be surprised if it translated into sales >2008. If they whipped out a $50 price cut at the time Kinect launched that would throw all predictions out the window.

no sorry it wont sell 50m, and i'm still wondering how it sold more than the shipped amount of figures, someone kindly explain to me but it was not that long ago ms reported around 41m shipped consoles yet we have more than that classified as sold here??