Like a belief in Santa Claus, there are unfortunately a few out there who believe Microsoft sold 10+ million X360s worldwide to consumers by the end of 2006. It turns out they only shipped that amount (or "sold" to retailers), and instead sold around 7.7 million units to consumers by the end of the year, according to some estimates like from vgcharts. However, six weeks later on Valentine's day, they've now hit 9 million units sold to consumers.
BTW, before you argue, even a Microsoft official admitted what we already found out from tracking numbers provided by research companies like NPD and Media Create:
Quote:However Satchell's comments are likely to be questioned in some quarters because Microsoft has already publicly admitted that the 10.4 million consoles sold haven't all been purchased by consumers.
Quote:What we're talking about is "sold." "Sold" means that we're a wholesaler of hardware and we sell it to a retailer, and that's the important criteria.
So how long do you think before they do actually have 10 million consumers who have bought an XBox 360? April? Summer?
Basically from launch to the end of 2006 the research companies show:
4.5 million sold to U.S. consumers, NPD's numbers
.25 million sold to Canada consumers, NPD's numbers
.24 million sold to Japan consumers, Media Create's numbers
1 million to 2.5 million sold to Europe consumers (my estimate partly using Chart Track references for UK sales to consumers)
