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Forums - Gaming - MS Spin Doctors "Xbox 360 reaches 10 million U.S. sales before Wii or PS3"

Grampy on 15 May 2008

Ah, spin doctoring at its best. Today microsoft released this  

Xbox 360 reaches 10 million U.S. sales before Wii or PS3 

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its Xbox 360 game machine beat Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 to reach 10 million units in U.S. sales.
"History has shown us that the first company to reach 10 million in console sales wins the generation battle," Don Mattrick, a Microsoft senior vice president who heads the company's Xbox business, said in a statement.
The Xbox 360 was the first of this latest generation of game machines to launch in the United States when it was released in November 2005. The PS3 and Wii were launched in the United States a year later.
The Wii is closing in on the Xbox 360, with 8.8 million units sold as of the end of March, while Sony has totaled 4.1 million PS3 units sold, according to market research firm NPD."

Of course every word is factual although I'm not sure why month old Wii figures were compared to today's XBox 360 figures (BS). A critical reading could have suggested an alternative headline.

Wii poised to pass faltering Xbox 360 despite its year long head start

What would you write as a headline?

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disolitude on 15 May 2008

I hate when companies do this...

Sony was announcing that they will win this few days ago at their conference too. Just STFU and make games damn it...and try to make money in the process.

Nintendo seems to be only company thats keeping their mouth closed about world domination...as they are actually doing it.



Grampy on 15 May 2008

Those that can, do. Those that can't, make up press releases saying they can.



Magnific0 on 15 May 2008

And Columbus discovered America....no wait, it was the Vikings!



SnowWhitesDrug on 15 May 2008
man that is madness! "history has shown..." pft what about the "current day events revealing that the wii is going to over take the 360 in America this year" talk about short sightedness, and i bet some people are gonna believe this ms dribble cos not every one is up to date with sales statistics like vg charts users. I hope Nintendo throws a huge party when the wii over takes x box 360 and makes sure ever news channel in America knows by how much the wii is pwning the 360!

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amp316 on 15 May 2008

Well at least none of the statement is a lie. It's really funny though. I don't remember Nintendo putting this kind of spin on things when they were getting beaten. I only remember them saying things like our games are the best which is opinion and not a spin.



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oliist on 15 May 2008

That made me actually laughing out loud.History shows what?That everything repeats itself over and over again?I don't think so. :)



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SnowWhitesDrug on 15 May 2008

hey some other guy has this thread to



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Rock_on_2008 on 15 May 2008

360 will also be the first to reach 12 million consoles sold in Americas. The Nintendo Wii will shortly take over the 360 in Americas in total sales in that region



Grampy on 15 May 2008

You are correct, there is another thread on this already. It either wasn't showing or I overlooked it. I will abandon this one.