It's pretty obvious that Microsoft benefited from Wii and PS3 shortages last year. The playstation brand has since lost a lot of its appeal (and exclusives). Further, the PS3 will be available this holiday season.

If Nintendo doesn't catch up with demand by Christmas, Microsoft will probably have another larger-than-usual holiday season. To be fair, Microsoft did an awful lot themselves to make it easy to purchase their console when no others could be found (plenty of stock, plenty of deals) and pushed rebates, bundles and other great deals to spark sales. They *wanted* 10 million by the end of 2006 badly.

Wii stock probably won't be sufficient for Christmas. Expect the 360 to do as well this year as last year.

That sounds like something I said once.

Or twice. Or thrice. Or four-ice.

John Lucas 

Hey, the home page seems to have it back below 10 million when I view it now (it's at 9.99m). Is that due to the lower-than-expected NPD, or is there just a calculation quirk of some sort going on?

It's the NPD thing, so next week people will be able to celebrate XBox 360 reaching 10M again!

The NPD values are accepted as the most accurate estimates, so when VGChartz updates after the NPD numbers come out, it works the NPD values into its numbers.

Thanks guys. It's what I figured. But I was a bit confused, as NPD reported a full week ago but I didn't notice the revision to 9.99 until yesterday. Does VGC only update their calculations on Wednesdays?

Usually tuesdays and wednesdays

You're wrong! Xbox made about 24 million. Xbox 360 made about 10 million.

Revived, for obvious reasons.

Mazal Tov!

Woot. Xbox360 reached 10 million..... again....