Microsoft sells 10 million Xbox 360s in the US
So thinks it's won
SOFTWARE giant, Microsoft became the first outfit to flog its 10 millionth next-generation game console in the United States.
According to Aaron Greenberg, Vole's director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, the 10 million figure is usually reached by the eventual winner of the console race in each generation.
Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3 came into the game too late to defeat Vole, he said.
Sony has been the first to the 10 million landmark in the two previous generations with its creatively named PS1 and PS2.
However in the US, the PS3 has only managed to sell 4.1 million so far while the Wii has done much better with 8.8 million sales.
Microsoft said it has sold 19 million Xboxes worldwide and its Xbox Live service has reached 12 million total users. µ
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But how many still work?
With a claimed 30% failure rate, can you assume that only 13,300,000 are still up and functional? And what of the folks that buy a 2nd after the first one dies?Bla ha, LOL
OK tell me this, how many are actually still working? That's the million dollar question of the day.sold or shipped?
Umm... Sony's numbers stressed that it was sold to consumers.Microsoft's numbers typically are the "been shipped to distributors and include boxes in the warehouse".
Apparently this time round, it also include "suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who bought a second box because the first one failed".
I wonder if it also includes all those replacement units because of the 30% failure rate. And is it 30%? At $1.4 billion, assuming $150 to fix per box, we're talking about 9,333,333 boxes that will require fixing.
How many did they sell again? 19million? And of that, they expect to fix 9.3 million boxes?
50% failure rate? Well, maybe not, since it's over 3 years... still....
Sold
All of the rrod units are under warranty and repaired for free.