Microsoft announced they hit 10 million worldwide last December and here it is nine months later and the 360 is just above 10 million worldwide. Talk about hitting a brick wall.
The first Xbox hit 24 million after four years before Microsoft stopped making the system. The 360 is closing in on two years on the market and it hasn't hit half the worldwide installed base of the first Xbox.
That means that the 360 is doing significantly worse than the first Xbox. And when you add in the 1.1 billion in defect charges this year the lifetime Xbox losses are in the 7 billion dollar range. 4-5 billion or so for the first Xbox, 1-2 billion over the past two years of the 360, and now the latest 1.1 billion on top of all of that. With Microsoft making so many moves in the Windows gaming market it seems like Microsoft is realizing that their efforts to burn money to buy marketshare have failed in the console market and are working on an exit strategy.
I remember people trying to claim that Sony wouldn't run through their supply until middle of 2008. So much for that claim.
Shouldn't be surprising. Sony just released the online game of the year with Warhawk. People are going nuts over this game. And Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo Prologue are all coming over the next few months. Sony's first party line up is absolutely insane.
Looks like those 110 or so million PS2 owners are starting to make their move to HD/1080p next gen gaming on the PS3.
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Microsoft announced they hit 10 million worldwide last December and here it is nine months later and the 360 is just above 10 million worldwide. Talk about hitting a brick wall.
The first Xbox hit 24 million after four years before Microsoft stopped making the system. The 360 is closing in on two years on the market and it hasn't hit half the worldwide installed base of the first Xbox.
That means that the 360 is doing significantly worse than the first Xbox. And when you add in the 1.1 billion in defect charges this year the lifetime Xbox losses are in the 7 billion dollar range. 4-5 billion or so for the first Xbox, 1-2 billion over the past two years of the 360, and now the latest 1.1 billion on top of all of that. With Microsoft making so many moves in the Windows gaming market it seems like Microsoft is realizing that their efforts to burn money to buy marketshare have failed in the console market and are working on an exit strategy.
I remember people trying to claim that Sony wouldn't run through their supply until middle of 2008. So much for that claim.
Shouldn't be surprising. Sony just released the online game of the year with Warhawk. People are going nuts over this game. And Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo Prologue are all coming over the next few months. Sony's first party line up is absolutely insane.
Looks like those 110 or so million PS2 owners are starting to make their move to HD/1080p next gen gaming on the PS3.