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Xbox 360 app made $1m in 4 months for Pizza Hut

"It's been a source of unbelievable growth for us"

Online sales are constant source of fascination in the games industry, but it's often we're discussing the sale of hot cheesy bread. That could all change now Pizza Hut has revealed its Xbox 360 app saw $1 million worth of sales in just four months.

"It's been a source of unbelievable growth for us," director of PR for Pizza Hut Doug Terfehr told Polygon.

"Just the explosion of people who wanted to download it, experiment with it, play with it with Kinect. As soon as we did one, everyone was contacting us to do the next [one]."

"When you talk about a sweet spot for the pizza category it's definitely gamers and gaming. We're not done in that space."

The Pizza Hut app on Xbox 360 allowed gamers to order a pizza from their local outlets, with an option to use Kinect.

"We're always looking at ways to give our audience more of what they're interested in," said Microsoft's Larry Hryb when the app launched.

"If you look at our audience, they love pizza. I mean, who doesn't? It has international appeal, and Pizza Hut is a recognized brand that matches up well with the Xbox brand."

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System seller right there... Sony better team up with Domino's..



 

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Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

What amazes me is that Pizza hut considers $1 million in 4 months "unbelievable growth".



My 8th gen collection

I'll be honest, I'm quite impressed.
That's a good amount of revenue created by a gaming peripheral..



ICStats said:
What amazes me is that Pizza hut considers $1 million in 4 months "unbelievable growth".

3 months after the introduction of the iOS app pizza hut also reported it generated 1 million dollar In sales



 

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NiKKoM said:
ICStats said:
What amazes me is that Pizza hut considers $1 million in 4 months "unbelievable growth".

3 months after the introduction of the iOS app pizza hut also reported it generated 1 million dollar In sales

Pizza hut has revenues of $5.7 Billion (2012).  $1 million growth in sales is 0.02% increase.

When they say "unbelievable growth", they must mean unbelievably crap.



My 8th gen collection

When they announced the App people joked about it and accepted that only a few would use it, I am surprised that people really used it.



$1M worth of sales doesn't seem like much to me. At first I thought they were predicting $1M worth of sales that they wouldn't have had without the app. What is to say these people weren't thinking of ordering pizza before they used the app?



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ICStats said:
NiKKoM said:
ICStats said:
What amazes me is that Pizza hut considers $1 million in 4 months "unbelievable growth".

3 months after the introduction of the iOS app pizza hut also reported it generated 1 million dollar In sales

Pizza hut has revenues of $5.7 Billion (2012).  $1 million growth in sales is 0.02% increase.

When they say "unbelievable growth", they must mean unbelievably crap.

Was just assembling the data myself (thanks to NPD, which does not only track consoles...)

Indeed one of the most pathetic uses of "unbelievable growth". PH probably lost a sh*tton of money with that stupid idea...



$1 million is tiny. I suppose if we assume each customer paid an average of $20, then that would mean they sold 50,000 pizza's. Not bad...



    

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