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Forums - Sales Discussion - MS: We have sold 28 million consoles

johnsobas on 06 January 2009
student said:
That means that VGCHartz is probably slightly high (if theirs are shipped), but it is VERY close. Good work!

Why?  It's shipped, that means less than a million on shelves WW.

 



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kylohk on 06 January 2009

Well, that number seems close enough to that of VGChartz. I bet the 750k or so difference are still on retailers around the world.



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Goddbless on 06 January 2009

So from those numbers it would seem VG is spot on. Good job guys!



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TWRoO on 06 January 2009

@diomedes... good try, but not true.

MS counts consoles shipped to retail, they do not ship re-furbs to retailers.

Sony and Nintendo do exactly the same, I think you may however be getting confused with what Sony used to do, which is to count the number of consoles produced. Even that method doesn't count re-furbished models, but it does count any sent out as replacements for unre-furbishable PS2s.

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@difference between shipped sold, it does seems little low to me, but then Xbox 360s have recently had a dmand boom, so it is perfectly possible MS did not catch up properly with demand. I have heard some saying that X360s are scarce in Germany, perhaps it is so in other regions too.