VGC Article. 360 CES sales.

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selnor on 10 January 2012

For some clarification I would just like to put this out there. I believe as a long term user I have the right to question the grounds of the article posted considering te matrial differs from what actually tok place. Or if M$ have sai differently sine the eynote speech.

Firstly make no mistake, CEO's and their companies no in much more minute detail exactly what they and their competitiors sales are at ALL times.

To address VGC article.. here we claim M$ announced the 66 million figur as shipped.

Here is Steve Balmers actual words.

"Xbox was the world sales leader last year for consoles. Currently 360 has OVER 66 million users and nearly 40 milion Live subscribers. Kinect since launch has 'SHIPPED' 18 millon units."

Now its odd that Balmer specifically said shipped for Kinect and Users for 360. YOu could decide he merely made a mistake on the 360. However, why would a CEO state these things incorrectly?

VGC may be right, but I just wondered under what infomation they have fro CES Keynote that M$ anounced 66 million shipped 360's.

;)

Other sites are posting the news as 360 has over 66m users.

I also waatchedd the keynote and he did not say shipped for 360. But said shipped for Kinect.

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NiKKoM on 10 January 2012

Don't we have a comment section below the article for that?

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selnor on 10 January 2012

NiKKoM said:
Don't we have a comment section below the article for that?

You never get replies from staff there.

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gameonbro on 10 January 2012

selnor said:

For some clarification I would just like to put this out there. I believe as a long term user I have the right to question the grounds of the article posted considering te matrial differs from what actually tok place. Or if M$ have sai differently sine the eynote speech.

Firstly make no mistake, CEO's and their companies no in much more minute detail exactly what they and their competitiors sales are at ALL times.

To address VGC article.. here we claim M$ announced the 66 million figur as shipped.

Here is Steve Balmers actual words.

"Xbox was the world sales leader last year for consoles. Currently 360 has OVER 66 million users and nearly 40 milion Live subscribers. Kinect since launch has 'SHIPPED' 18 millon units."

Now its odd that Balmer specifically said shipped for Kinect and Users for 360. YOu could decide he merely made a mistake on the 360. However, why would a CEO state these things incorrectly?

VGC may be right, but I just wondered under what infomation they have fro CES Keynote that M$ anounced 66 million shipped 360's.

;)

Other sites are posting the news as 360 has over 66m users.

I also waatchedd the keynote and he did not say shipped for 360. But said shipped for Kinect.

soo.... they are now reporting shared stats? hell they would be over 100m

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Munkeh111 on 10 January 2012

Isn't more because it is a speech, so he just wanted to say different things and not repeat the word shipped multiple times in the same sentence

But it doesn't really matter, the 360 is doing well, making money, and there SHOULD be no reason for a nextbox for a while despite the rumours, as this was the 360's best year yet

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SnakeDrake on 10 January 2012

66 million shipped

66 million users

So there is no stock left.

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zhao3gold on 10 January 2012

there is a video posted from MICROSOFT to highlight its 2011. In the video, it mentioned 360 66m sold, KINECT 18M sold.

We all knew this "sold" means "shipped". So 360 has 66m shipped and KINECT has 18m shipped. This is confirmed. Not necessary to make this topic.

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sergiodaly on 10 January 2012

well... he might want exactly this... to flame wars in video game forums. this creates brand awareness and free publicity. we all know PR statements always give people arguments to use in these wars.