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July 2012 NPD: Microsoft's response, Xbox 360 sales

Microsoft has sent out its response to the latest NPD report (and revealed sales for the Xbox 360).

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Dark3604267d ago ShowReplies(2)
Belking4267d ago

Congrats to Microsoft. 19 straight months as the sales leader. Looks like Microsoft will have good momentum heading into next gen.

greenpowerz4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

Price drop plus AAA 1st and 3rd party games will bring on the best year ever. Hell Internet Explorer with Kinect will sell the console.

Go out with a bang before xbox 720 MSFT might be thinking.

KwietStorm_BLM4267d ago

Internet explorer will sell the console?

greenpowerz4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

Yes devices being able to connect to the web with a browser sell hardware lol. People also buy divices for Netflix, Blu-ray drive, web surfing.

It's such a wanted feature for multi room households to be able to surf the web on the big screen, HDTV makers are racing to support it.
Xbox will have on of the best non pc browsers but with voice and gesture control.

Kinect enabled Internet Explorer on the 52" HDTV in stereo will be a social casual surfing experience not seen before. Will be like a rebirth of kinect but for surfing. Webcam, skype, video chat etc etc

Disagree all you want but Tv makers noticed this and beat MSFT to the punch with MSFT's very own strengths hence HDTV makers starting to add kinect-like capability and web browsers.

Took MSFT long enough partnering way back with Sega and the Dreamcast.

Capt-FuzzyPants4267d ago

Anything can happen. PS2 was huge all around the world, but the high price point of the PS3 destroyed any momentum it had. If Sony makes the PS4 have a competitive price point things could change. Sony also has to advertise the diverse amount of games too. They need to pull in sales from younger audiences for games like LBP, the hardcore audience with games like Killzone, and I think you know where I'm going with this. If they market it the right way and if the Xbox has the same problems it had this gen with RROD then the PS4 could be very successful.

Belking4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

I think both MS and Sony have learned their lessons this gen. Microsoft with the RROD and sony with their PS3 price/vita and other things. It does seem like sony has paid the bigger price so far with losing their U.S. market share. Things have to get better for sony in the next 6 to 9 months or the PS4 may be delayed a bit longer. Anything can happen but Microsoft has to be happy about where they are right now.

greenpowerz4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

PS3 hardware did alright after PS2 hardware problems. Are you saying a late PS2 hardware revision last generation is good enough but a late 360 hardware revision this generation doesn't count and will threaten the generation after?

Never heard people worrying about PS3 before it came out because early PS2's.

cuddlemonkey4267d ago

Your face , among other things, why so serious?

Lvl_up_gamer4267d ago

When you consider the 360 hasn't had a price drop since 2009 and is still selling over 200k a month in north America alone going not its 8th year on the market, it seems the 360 is going strong. I expect a price cut at the time or just before the 720 announcement and will spark sales once again. Profits made from the 360 will carry over to the losses of the 720. Very similar to how the ps2 assisted in cushioning the ps3 cost which was priced at a loss like most consoles are marked as.....excluding the wii.

nukeitall4267d ago

Yeah, I'm really wondering about that. The average selling price of the Xbox 360 is really high and they haven't had a price drop for 3-4 years while the competition each have had at least, some two and maybe a third one soon.

MS is definitely going for profit here and so does Nintendo it seems with the imminent release of Wii U and no price drop on Wii in sight.

Droid Control4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

M$ win in the U.S for sure, just like Sony wins in Japan and Europe. I don't see the PS3 overtaking the 360 in worldwide sales until M$ release the 720. Eventually though, Sony will equal, then pass 360. Its inevitable. Sony sell consoles in territories the 360 hasn't even heard of. The PS2 is still a great seller in India for example...

But by that point who will care other than Sony?
The fanboys will be busy fighting the 720 VS PS4 war at that point.

units4267d ago

Sony winning in Europe is not true

Sheikh Yerbouti4267d ago

I said they will tie late 2012, and so far it seems I'll be right. Each month the PS3 outsells the 360 globally by just enough...

Lvl_up_gamer4267d ago (Edited 4267d ago )

The 360 and ps3 are pretty much tied. With under a 2 million difference, I am comfortable saying Sony has managed to eliminate the gap. However ms is strongest during holiday season and has not had a price decreas since 2009 so ms still hold a couple cards in this hand to play. It will be interesting to see which console maker comes out on top (excluding nintendo) at the end of this generation.

Either way I own both a 360 and ps3 and will buy day 1 a 720 and ps4.

With good sales for both Sony and MS I am pretty confident the game support will still be there from 1st and 3rd parties for both next gen and that is all that matters to me.

Sheikh Yerbouti4266d ago

I also predicted it be so close, both sides will claim victory.

Yep, looks like it from all the disagrees.

nukeitall4267d ago

Xbox 360 sells the strongest during holidays, because that is where there user base is. MS always post very strong numbers during the holidays.

Last year, during the holidays MS outsold the competition almost 2 million consoles worldwide without a price drop. That is like 180k consoles a month!

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2615d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905060d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5060d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905060d ago (Edited 5060d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5060d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5060d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5060d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495060d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5060d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5060d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2651d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One