Microsoft announce 17.7 million Xbox 360s sold

Auctoria | January 04, 2008 | News | XBOX 360

Microsoft announced that there second games console has sold 17.7 million copies worldwide and calling it the industry leader "hands down". It suggests sales of the Xbox 360 in 2007 were down 18% from 2006. They also revealed Halo 3 had sold 8.1 million copies and BioWare's Mass Effect had sold 1.6 million copeis in its first six weeks on sales.

Last month's full retail sales figures haven't been tallied just yet, but Microsoft today gave number-hungry gamers a few morsels to tide them over. Calling its Xbox 360 the industry leader "hands down," Microsoft announced that it had sold 17.7 million systems worldwide.
It suggests 2007 sales of the Xbox 360 were actually down nearly 18 percent from the year before.

The Xbox 360's biggest game to date also received a sales update, as Microsoft revealed that it had sold 8.1 million copies of Halo 3 since its September release. Combined with the hardware base, this suggests that nearly 46 percent of Xbox 360 owners have purchased a copy of the Bungie-developed shooter.

Microsoft claims that its other holiday-season sci-fi epic, the BioWare-developed Mass Effect, sold 1.6 million copies in its first six weeks on sale. The November release was intended to be the first installment in a trilogy for Microsoft and the Xbox 360, but it remains to be seen exactly what impact, if any, Electronic Arts' acquisition of BioWare will have on the series' future. More Microsoft numbers are likely to be revealed during the company's 2008 CES keynote address on Sunday evening.

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Akira_EX | January 05, 2008

You should also mention that this is the number shipped; i.e., number of units they sold to retail.
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  DragoniteBallZ | January 05, 2008
  
  sold is what it says in the article though.
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    Final Blade | January 06, 2008
    
    What it should be is not sold but shipped. Cause unless you use what akira stated last, it makes it sound like the other way around which is not.
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Play ISDF | January 05, 2008

You know...for a console that apparently dies quite a bit with the RRoD, it has done very well but as Akira said, this is the number of units sold to retail. But all in all the 360 has done quite a damn good job despite some problems here and there.
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Storm | January 05, 2008

Why don't they wait until they hit the big 2-0 before announcing something?
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  Play ISDF | January 05, 2008
  
  Probably cause it's now 08.
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InvincibleDude | January 06, 2008

cool but i wonder if the ps3 would catch up
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Bri | January 06, 2008

Not a surprise considering it had a time advantage over the other two. The console still sells decently though, so Microsoft has been able to keep the advantage in their court. However, we have yet to see the true potential of the Wii or PS3, and in the PS3's case, all the "OMG" games have yet to come out. The battle's definitely not over.