Microsoft Sold 750,000 Xbox 360s Last Week

Hmm I wonder what pushed the sales for it? Other than Black Friday of course.

I'm gonna jump on the "Halo 4 pushed sales" bandwagon as well.

My guess would be Halo 4, Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Xmas coming!
I think it sold better then the wii U because its less expensive.
They have this bundle with the xbox, kinect & 2 games for 199$

Oh I'm an idiot forgetting about Halo 4

I think it's finding a lot of success with the whole $99 + $15/mo. subscription thing. The lower upfront cost is much easier for people to fit into their Christmas budgets. If Nintendo had something similar for the Wii U I'd probably go out and get one right now.

What's not too encouraging for Nintendo is how everybody keeps clamoring for the release of new hardware, when they did just that just a week ago.

Yeah, there are guys like me that didnt expect the wait list to be so short and expected my Wii U after Christmas, therefore I can't afford a single game for it for a month or so....looks like I am borrowing my 9 year old brother's Wii games for a while (I didnt get the original Wii since it came out my first year in college and I had 0 money.)

They sold a bit more last year didn't they? Still very impressive numbers though.

That is very very impressive.

Yeah, there are guys like me that didnt expect the wait list to be so short and expected my Wii U after Christmas, therefore I can't afford a single game for it for a month or so....looks like I am borrowing my 9 year old brother's Wii games for a while (I didnt get the original Wii since it came out my first year in college and I had 0 money.)

Hah! Called that **** in this thread

Can't post links to GR? Anyway its the "No plans to bring Halo 4 to PC" thread...

3/4 of a million people bought a 360 just to play Halo 4?!?! I think that someone interested in Halo 4 would have played previous Halo releases, and therefore owned a 360. Unless they were all victims of red rings and waited for the release of Halo to jump back in. Just can't see the logic there.....


I think Halo had a lot less to do with this than Black Friday did.

Would you believe some parents are so dumb that THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU HAVE TO BUY A BRAND NEW XBOX-SLIM to use KINECT ???

My aunt was ready to buy one and I had to explain to her that Kinect works with the original Xbox.

It was within my best interest to save her money because SHE OWES ME $5000.

Wii U is going to underperform sales goals quarter after quarter - with Japan driving sales and North America lagging behind. I haven't seen anything there worth owning.


CallofBottyBlackCocks2 is going to drive Xbox360 sales.

BO2 is obviously a huge system seller. The BO2 commercials at the end play the Xbox logo and say play it on Xbox so I'm sure a lot of casuals/parents think that only 360 plays BO2.

Parents are the real dummies. They don't even do what they demand their kids do in school and READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.

This looks like an apples-to-oranges comparison to me. One is a long established console with a special deal, the other is a new release that's still building hype. Are there numbers for how the 360 sold during its first one or two weeks?

This is why I think it's still too early for a new round of consoles. The current generation is still going strong. With the economy in it's current state, I don't think any new console is going to sell well when there are already very capable machines readily available at reasonable prices.

Like I keep saying, no one has been asking for a new generation of consoles yet. I have yet to talk to someone who says, "Man, I hate my PS3 it is so old and boring". I know the consoles are really dated, but look at all the sales and games being published. I think Sony and MS holding off is really smart.