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Microsoft's Xbox Beats Out All Other Game Consoles

Actually, almost all, excluding ones who voided their warranties, of the RROD consoles were exempt from the sales figures as they were handled thru MS and the repair/replace dept.
New sales are new sales. I like all 3 consoles so pipe down.


On Oct 22 11:20 AM petera wrote:

> Beats out all other game consoles? How?
>
> With a years head start in this generation, the Xbox 360(32 mill)
> is around 22 million consoles behind the Wii (54 mill.) and only
> 7 million in front of the PS3 (25 mill).
>
> Given those estimates the 360 is doing about 8 million units a year
> while the Wii sits at 18 million units a year and the PS3 at 8.3
> million a year. So in terms of yearly sales it sits in last place
> with the PS3 catching up at an alarming rate since the price drop.
>
>
> Also keep in mind that a ton of those 360 sales are for replacement
> hardware because of it's mind boggling rate of failure. I'm one of
> the lucky ones. I'm only on my second 360 since Launch. My first
> one lasted 3 years and 9 months which in terms of luck is akin to
> winning the lottery.