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360 Sells Briskly, Geometry Wars Arcade Hit

Posted by Zonk on from the such-a-good-game. dept.

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."

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  1. Amusing. by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Microsoft's predictions are correct, this could pose a major threat to Sony's well-established PlayStation line of consoles.

    I wonder what Sony's or Nintendo's predictions might be...

    Most unbiased indications are saying that XBox 360 is not doing quite as well as they would have hoped, especially in Japan where the reception has been lukewarm at best. Couple that with the fairly unimpressive game line-up it's not going to take Nostradamus to see that were just going to have to see what happens in the forthcoming months.

    The XBox 360 hype never seemed to pick up steam (at least in the UK) and now there are units on shelves that hype has largely subsided. At the moment the XBox360 is only competing with current hardware on shelve's, that includes its younger brother (Xbox), the PS2 and the gamecube. PS2 units sold is probably rapidly approaching 100 million units worldwide ....

    So until we see the other Next Gen consoles on shelve's this is just idle speculation.

    http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=84 98&page=2

    I dont think XBox 360 is much of a threat to Sony, or Nintendo just yet ;)

    Nick ...

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    1. Re:Amusing. by CaseM · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Most unbiased indications are saying that XBox 360 is not doing quite as well as they would have hoped, especially in Japan where the reception has been lukewarm at best.

      What the hell are you talking about? The thing is sold out everywhere BUT Japan.

  2. Re:I love mine by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And I'm sure many of us will buy it used when it's been hacked.