US NPD Sales Data: XBOX-360 Specific

So compared to the 360, it looks like the original xbox sold more than twice as many units during the first copule of months. Does anyone know how many xboxes were available at launch? I know that the 360 was in much shorter supply, but I'm curious whether the sales numbers for the old xbox also reflect a sell-out?

Thats some crazy christmas sales

Just wait till christmas this year.. MS could probably hit the 2 million mark.. because the 360 is widely available this year, big titles like Gears of War, HDDVD interested consumers and the gobs of frustrasted shoppers looking for a PS3..

wow, look at NOV and DEC

can any console do bad during those 2 months. I say 1.5 million 360s in DEC.

There was Xbox 360 shortages.

So, I'm predicting at least 9 million Xbox 360s sold by the end of calendar 2006.

I'm also predicting many, many hundreds of thousands of HD DVD add-on drives sold by that time too.

and here's hoping for another 360 price drop to coincide with the ps3 release

They sold every last console available. You cannot sell hardware thats not yet produced.

Cool, but I can't wait to see the Dec. 26th - Jan. 1st numbers as well. The 360's didn't stop at Christmas, tons of people were spending either money or gift cards on Hardware in that area.

Thing is, the number of people willing to shell out $600 hadn't. ;-)
And with no box to spend the $600 on...

Sounds like they hit 10 million plus change after all.

Even if you count conservatively, they hit a minimum of 9 million units since they passed the 7 million mark a few months back.

According to www.vgcharts.org, the xbox360 hit 8.13 million.

And according to nexgenwars.com, it hasn't. The point is, neither of these 2 sites are accurate. Just wait until Microsoft announced the official count in a little while.

? nex gen is at 9.4

All I can say is what I seen last week. I was at Wal-Mart in a city with a population of 250,000 people. There were three 60 gig PS3's behind the glass and no Xbox 360's available. I was actually shocked. Sony has to be feeling it. How on earth could there be three PS3's available while the 360's are completely sold out?

Because the PS3 initial hype is over...they're not selling for $$$ on ebay anymore and there are really no games out yet. Why spend $600+ on that? PS3 is DOA.

8.13 million is a sh!t load of consoles in my opinion. Sony has a lot of work ahead of them if they don't want to lose market share to MS. It will be very hard them them to catch up. Games like Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword and Lair better damn well kick ass! Not bashing Sony, I have a PS3 and like it a lot.

As of 1 Jan it actually starts for all consoles to see what happens at the end of the year to see what the trend is. It will be interesting. I think overall it is the price that will be the issue for the PS3 but stumbling out of the blocks and 06 problems throughout the year have caught up to the brand name recognition.

It's really not that many when compared to the more than 100 million PS2s sold.

The same can be said about the nintendo 64. We are not discussing past gen systems. We are talking about the current gen systems of the 3. I don't see the point of bringing old systems up thats been heard before and being cheaper then all 3 next gem systems I would expect it to sale alot of systems at the price it is at. If all 3 systems were at the same price they would be sold like hotcakes too at the price of the PS2.

Price may or may not be an issue, but that can always be lowered in Fall of 07. I don't think the PS3 "stumbled out of the blocks", because Sony sold more PS3's between Nov/Dec06 than MS sold xbox360 during Nov/Dec05. Sony just has a lot of catching up to do...

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According vgcharts 2005 yearly summary, which should be accurate since it is a summary and not a prediction, MS sold 674,500 xbox360 in America and 86,750 in Japan in 2005. PS3 sales predictions of the same time period in 06 range anywhere from 800,000 to 1,300,000 consoles.

The PS3 launched into a world where the 360 had 6M+ consoles out and the Wii sold 3M+. The 360 launch was bungled to be sure, but not to the point the PS3 was. The 360 launched less units but it had more exclusives and probably sold more software.

The PS3 launched and sold less than the other console launching with it, had competition already out with millions sold and had a terrible attach rate. According to the Nov NPD even the best selling title sold under what are considered the weakest of 360 launch titles.

According to vgcharts R:FoM sold 80K in Nov 2006, PD:0 sold 180K in 2005.

Its hard to say the PS3 launch was successful unless you were talking about its BR playback. Especially when the PS3 was delayed to holiday 2007 and still had the launch it did.

The 360 had more exclusives and sold more software simply because there was no other next-gen console to compete with. It is clear to me that although I am a firm believer in Sony using a next generation drive, I am pretty certain that they will NOT be able to surpase the 360 by 2010. MS head start of 8 million is BIG in my opinion.

But saying what happen in 05 for the 360 compared to 06 for the PS3 doesn't really matter. Today is what matters. If the PS3 had launched in Spring of 06 as originally planned would it make much difference in which system sold. I don't think we would have seen a differents in units sold between the two. But it didn't happen none of that really matters except for what is today. What I am saying is we all know what happen last year to today but what matters is what it is now. Its the same pointless comment people make about the PS2.

Sure the price can be lowered, but are they not already in the red with the PS3? I mean what good will that do if they lowered it at $50 or $100 dollars. That means they are further in the red with investers and they will have another woman standing up at the next conference asking where is her money to Trent. On top of that, All MS has to do is say we would like to announce our price drop which even if Sony did announce a price drop I don't see a reason for MS to be concerned to change the price right after an announcement like that would be made. MS isn't losing as much but they have investors also of course too. If MS drops price too then that is again a problem for Sony, more loss of money on the system and still the same gap between cost of the 360 and PS3. It is an uphill battle no matter which comes about just like you said.