Microsoft Aims For 15 Million 360s By Next Year

Gamespot is carrying the news that Microsoft is aiming to sell 13 to 15 Million consoles by June of next year. The story shows good and bad news for the company; While they've already sold 5 Million units, the Home Entertainment division lost about $1.2 billion for the last year. From the article: "Will Microsoft make its goal in the face of not one, but two rival next-gen console launches this fall? That remains to be determined, but the console will have the advantage of being cheaper than the Sony PlayStation 3 and having a bigger game library than the Nintendo Wii. The upcoming 12 months will also see several exclusive 'system seller' titles be released for the 360, including Epic Games' Gears of War, which is tentatively due this holiday season." Kotaku points out that, to sweeten the pot, a new bundle pack may be in the offing for the system.

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Re:Only 3 Million Sold After 7 Months

[tomstdenis]

I guess buying in early sucks :-)

At least with the DS the games might suck but the homebrew scene is strong.

Tom

Re:Only 3 Million Sold After 7 Months

[KeiichiMorisato]

DS games suck?

I beg to differ. Look at the latest numbers for the top 10 console games sold in Japan

http://www.the-magicbox.com/topten.htm

The top 3 spots are DS games and 7/10 spots are DS games.

And on the US charts for July 2-8

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153855.html

DS games are right up there, but only pushed down a bit due to the World Cup frenzy that pushed all the soccer games up the charts.

Re:Only 3 Million Sold After 7 Months

[tomstdenis]

Ok I take that back. Most DS games sucks. I own about 10-12 games or so but most of them I only play on planes or when I'm otherwise forcefully confined. Given the choice I'd rather play NES or GB games instead.

The problem with the vast majority of DS games is they're ports of side scrollers. Frankly, keep that shit on the GBA where it belongs (not that I hate side scrollers, I just think it's a waste of a DS). Then you have the crappy driving sims... boo.

I like Mario64DSXPPROEDITION and I like a few others [mario kart is ok]. All the driving sims so far are crappy though and there are no classics.

Damn it, I want virtua fighter already [why that wasn't ported to the GBA I don't know, solid flat shaded polygons are drawable at 16MHz]....

tom

Re:Only 3 Million Sold After 7 Months

[masklinn]

duh? DS games? Suck? Are we both talking about Nintendo's Dual Screen?

They may have pretty... unusual games... but most of the ones I own & play I would actually rank "good" to say the least, and I have nearly a dozen of games, and not enough money to buy the many other good ones (that've been released in yurop, then it'll be time to hit the import stores)