360 Sells Briskly, Geometry Wars Arcade Hit

RemovableBait writes "Microsoft's Xbox 360 has sold over 600,000 units so far and is on track to sell over 4.5 million consoles by the end of the business year. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft could have sold many more as 'video game publishers and retailers have said shipments during the key holiday season fell short of expectations'. If Microsoft's predictions are correct, this could pose a major threat to Sony's well-established PlayStation line of consoles." Relatedly, Saige writes "The Live Arcade on the original Xbox was ignored by just about everyone who owned that console. However, the updated version on the Xbox 360 is getting a totally different reception, spearheaded by the popular Geometry Wars, an old-school style 2-D shooter in the vein of Robotron: 2084 that has eye candy deserving of a next-gen title - all for $5. The demo has been downloaded 200,000 times."

Comments

600,000 in 7 weeks is NOT brisk

[Anonymous Coward]

It's actually one of the weakest console launches in recent history.

See Dreamcast:

"In the United States alone, a record 200,000 units had been pre-ordered before launch and Sega sold 500,000 consoles in just two weeks..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast

Playstation 2:
500,000 in the first TWO days in North America, 980,000 over the opening weekend in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

Certainly MS would have sold more if they had had more, but as it stands this is a weak launch, not 'selling briskly.'