Xbox 360 Reaches 30 Million Console Sales

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  That's one way of looking at it. Another would be going from the market leader to underestimating the com... : Pettytheft
  • I still love my Ps3 mroe then my 360, i was hugely against the ps3 until i got one and now my 360 just co... : Ruaerikoholic

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  I find it even more surprising it's sold as much as half as many of the DS units. I have to hand it to... : Schnapple
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    well I think you have to look at the attach rate there too. From what I understand the PSP is really flai... : derelict515
    • That and homebrew. Yeah we all snicker every week when a half dozen DS games aimed at ten year old gi... : Schnapple
    • Yeah, this is a problem. I got my PSP this last christmas and all I've really used it for is watching vid... : Iazu
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      isn't DS piracy easier and more common than PSP piracy? : Cihte
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        From what I have heard PSP piracy is huge. One high school student called into a podcast I listen to and... : OmegaRed59
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          PSP Piracy probably uses the memory stick which can be bought in stores. DS piracy involves importing som... : Schnapple
          • PSP piracy is far more difficult and time-consuming than DS piracy...not to mention that the games are mu... : Vincent Grayson
          • My DS was much easier to "hack" then my friends PSP. Just needed a micro SD card and this cheap DS cartr... : dhvyse
    • yup, piracy is apparently pretty bad on it. it's not difficult on the DS either but their target demograp... : Shai-Tan
    • The attach rate is pretty bad for the DS too though, not as bad as the psp but if it's not a Nintendo gam... : razlebol
• Yeah me too. I know way more people with 360's and not one person with a PSP besides the people I know fr... : bozer
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  I have zero idea how the psp sold so much : Luminair
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    someone please inform me : Luminair
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      When a mommy and daddy love each other very much.... : walker270
      • ..... they stick fists up each other's asses. : themaestro2657
  • People buy it mostly as a UMD movie player : Cihte
• And the PSP outsold the PS3. HOLY CATFUCKERS! Dude psp = portable system, where's the real comparison you... : BauriceMastard
• Remember the UMD movie flop? Buy Spiderman for the DVD price, but microsized! : vezatron
• Yea. PSP sales as strong as the Wii sales. That's amazing. But then also, the DS has double PSP sales.... : matrixneo42

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  I'd get a 360 if they re-vamped the design(something substantial though) showing they actually fixed the ... : jtthe2nd
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    The Jaspers seem to be pretty rock solid as far as I can tell. : uncleanmonkey
    • They are still loud and hot though :( : mxcl
  • Only major problem it had was the chipset failures but that was fixed for the most part with that Falcons... : NuMMnUtZ
  • In my experience the Elites (and I suppose the newer regular white ones' that are also Jasper) are reliab... : oO SilentK Oo
• This post perfectly describes me, too. I am a 360 owner who would like to get a PS3 eventually when the ... : LemonJoose
• Someone buying a PS3 for just the few exclusives it offers won't help Sony. : jake
• I'll think about a PS3 when they are less than $~200 and when I absolutely must have blu-ray. That's bec... : matrixneo42

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• And how many of those 360s are repeat purchases :-p : Makenxero
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  I'm more curious how and if they factor in the defective units. I mean you have people buying back-up Ar... : Wombat Woo
  • I mean you have people buying back-up Arcade units just to avoid all the hoop-hoola when their current 36 : ColoradoCNC
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  I think the biggest thing is that the PS2 KICKED the Xboxs ass completely. As such Playstation had a ston... : marmite
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    But if we take that further, Nintendo was completely obliterated last generation and look where they are ... : AndyGoin
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      #2 in console sales is being obliterated? Also, wasn't Nintendo the only one that was profitable last ge... : OmegaRed59
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        No the PS2 was amazingly profitable. : ease one
        • The PS2 is still raking in the money. : Pettytheft
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          They still weren't as successful as Nintendo. So it's ridiculous to say they were obliterated. http://... : Cihte
          • maybe. Sony does get a cut of every PS2 game sold. And they sold a lot more games than MS or Nintendo. ... : ease one
        • After a few revisions. It was a loss leader at first as well. : Fred Garvin
• that depends on if you account for the fact that coming into this generation Sony was still expected to w... : derelict515
• To echo derelict515, one of the issues might be attach rate. I personally know a number of people who ... : Schnapple
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  The issue there is we all expect Sony to sell Sony numbers, not Microsoft numbers. : Carnivac
  • is Sony the underdog now? : quadalupeupe
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  No, because the gap is getting wider. When the 360 was at 10M it had 2x the install base of PS3, now the ... : uncleanmonkey
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    The absolute difference I mean, it used to be 5M for a long time (the 360 was basically at 5 when the PS3... : uncleanmonkey
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      the first replies mentioned repeat buyers from RROD or system failures, what % of that 30 million is buyi... : quadalupeupe
      • sales year over year have increased in line with the price cuts so price is probably significant in build... : Shai-Tan
• yes but considering Xbox was last place last gen, and now they are selling better than or at least as goo... : ease one
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  That would only make sense if console sales occurred at a consistent rate, month to month. As consoles ag... : nardman
  • If you look at sales charts, it actually is fairly constant month-to-month, with spikes around huge syste... : walker270
• Depends on the bottom line doesn't it? I mean MS is actually making money as is Nintendo. Sony is still i... : Fred Garvin

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  I don't see why that would be considered "horseshit". I mean really, for the consol to be out for so lon... : dhvyse
  • + the fact that they don't get all the money...some goes to retailers...distributors. : SlingBlaze
• I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at. : Alice O'Connor
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  Sweet, I didn't know the consoles cost $0 to produce. : jake
  • bill gates births them lovingly one by one from his internet connected smartbed. the costs are negligible... : Mansmells

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• one would assume "active accounts" does not mean gold subscriptions. : defuru

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• 29.3 million : walker270

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• Well, not to be a jerk, but you can lose getting either one when the thing you want (an exclusive game, e... : Schnapple
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  "As for Nintendo, they'll always be a leader", yeah, that's what people thought after the original Ninten... : hillemania
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    True, a Nintendo console in #1 hasn't happened since the SNES, and not this strongly since the NES. B... : Schnapple
    • it helps that the Wii is more or less an updated gamecube which helps Nintendo keep costs down and profit... : metalremains
    • Not to mention that throughout that entire period (N64 through Gamecube) Nintendo was selling gangbusters... : Iazu
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    Nintendo has always been at the top, money-wise. Every generation they've "won", as far as $$ is concerne... : Cihte
    • Nintendo makes a ton of bank on the video game market, they are no fools in this regard. : metalremains

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  Now that would be an interesting stat. : Edges
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    Be even more interesting if it didn't include them (i.e., a 360 which has failed and sent in and replaced... : Schnapple
    • Its a stat id love to see.. but ms will prob never release it. Its a matter of brand trust and all that s... : drnen
• I'm going to guess at least half failed within 3 years of operation. lol. : silent prophet
• yeah, 15 million people have had to buy TWO consoles, cause of the RROD. : jimvolk
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  BUY? why would you buy another xbox when you get the RROD...... send it back for free... : alexwinrar
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    Sadly there are plenty of people who can't wait and simply go out and buy a new one. : Begawkiness
    • And by "plenty" you mean < 0.01% or something irrelevant like that. It's not enough to impact this number... : uncleanmonkey
  • some people don't even know you can do that I bought Fable 2 for $20.00 on craigslist because the girl... : quadalupeupe

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• Mines broke error code E75. I had the ring o death before with the one update. : Ziz

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• There is no console named "X-Box 360". Maybe you're thinking of the XBox 360? ;-) : gimpi