Only 300,000 Xbox 360 units sold in 2008?

VideoGamer.com reports: "Back at the beginning of the year Microsoft announced that worldwide Xbox 360 sales figures had reached 17.7 million units by the end of 2007. According to the latest sales figures, revealed by Microsoft's John Schappert, this number has risen to 18 million units over the early parts of 2008.

This suggests that the Xbox 360 console has sold only 300,000 units during the opening weeks in 2008."

[jack who]

Only 300,000 Xbox 360 units sold in 2008?

whats todays date?

[whoelse]

Its probably more like 18.1 or 18.2

300,000 would sound about right for America but not globally.

[s8anicslayer]

the post is system counts from january 08 to current, not from time of release, read the post before you comment

[marinelife9]

I guess it takes a little longer to make an xbox when you're trying to actually make it right the first time. Hopefully they'll catch up with the shortages before GTAIV is released.

[whoelse]

Im talking since start of 2008, not since time of release.

it sold 230,000 in January according to NPD (US only). So 300,000 say by February 10th is about right.

[MikeGdaGod]

there are plenty of 360s in Best Buys and Gamestops around me. the shortages must be in tiny hick towns because there are plenty where i am.

[ben hates you]

about console sales

[ericnellie]

I'll agree with you on that one:)
The whole obsession with console counting is out of control =) I just like reading all the different posts when the NDP numbers are posted!

To each his own ;)

[Nevers]

...yet some of these rants (factual or not) are pretty damn entertaining. Wish the mods would just move the ones over to the zone "they belong to" instead of outright deletion.

[Bill Gates]

Lets see the BABOONS spin this one.....AHAHAHAHAHHAHA

You BABOONS are pathetic gammers that play CRAP games on a pathetic system....AHHAAHAHA

[Superiorrior]

Funny how they have been selling so little, and all of a sudden they jump to 18. Mln units... Take it away Bill Gates!

[SSCOOLCHEA]

Will fix everyhting for microshiiiiiiiiiiii

[Stubacca]

The less suckers out there the better.

[kewlkat007]

now were keeping track to the day huh...

Isn't this slow months for gaming after every has emptied their pockets on the holidays...

Plus no big games out really besides DMC4...hmm what else?

[Bathyj]

I agree its been soooo slow for gaming news. PS3 outselling XB in NA and BR winning is still the biggest thing to happen this year. Hopefully march/april should see some good games and more news.

[ravinash]

I've only just got DMC4 and UT3 here in the UK....if this is a slow month, I'd hate to see a busy one.

[Richdad]

It hard to find a 360 in markets. Hopefully they might get stock ready by the end of the month Hope they do something abt the hardware quality, because I want to enjoy thier great lineup without any hazard. Seriously this year lineup of 360 is getting even better than 2007.

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GOTY 2008 NG2 and not GOW2 or even RE5.

[BeaArthur]

I live in VA and every Best Buy, Gamestop, Game Crazy or any other retailer have had plenty since since as far back as I can remember. That was a classic Microsoft spin job; like when they said there is nothing wrong with 360's and that the failure rate is exagerated. The fact is that the 360 has been out for longer and naturally over time their sales with start to decline.

[NikV3]

i live in va aswell, down here at va beach everyone has 360's, my friend works at gamestop and the only time they've sold out since the begining of 07 is around gaylo 3. most people i know are buying ps3 getting ready for there 08 onslaught

[Fishy Fingers]

If it was November/December 08 now that might be worrying for MS but we're on 7 weeks in? Stupid article, who cares...

[subzero9]

Wow that is sad, when the xbots kept talking about ps3 not selling we later find out ps3 has gotten up to 10,000,000 4 MONTHS before the 360 got up to 8,000,000, now to see that only 300,000 sold so far means that have the xbots been given a reason to shutup? i see a future and the future is 20,000,000 ps3's in homes by the end of 2008 when there are 18,000,000 in homes by the end of 08. PLUS!! XBOX had a FULL YEAR HEADSTART!!!

[rawd]

but but but.... Gears of War 2!

360 has nothing left in the tank, so they have to get their lackey followers excited about something.

[lawman1108]

Something is up, they must be getting ready to put out a new SKU with new chips because in the NYC area they have not had an Elite since September and you can't find any Pro's either. The arcade is the only one I have seen and the stores only have a few of them.

[Silellak]

"Flamebait article posted on N4G to start fanboy war."

[beavis4play]

sad thing is over half of articles on this site are flamebait.

[-EvoAnubis-]

The Wii has had shortages from day one, but they seem to have no trouble outselling every other home console in the world. What the hell is MS's excuse?

[Silellak]

The Wii is easy to make. Nintendo has been making the Gamecube for years, and the two systems are very similar.

My theory is that there was a 'gap' in 360 production once Microsoft stopped manufacturing the really-broken original 360 model and started manufacturing the only-somewhat-broken 360 model with a new heatsink.

That, and it seems they also overestimated the popularity of the Arcade model, since the only ones people can't find easily (in some places) are the Premium and Elite. Finding an Arcade is easy, but people don't seem to want it.

These, combined with a large amount of sales over the holiday season, led to a minor "shortage". Even without the shortage, the PS3 probably would've sold better than the 360, though.

[ROCCOZILLA]

i didnt think they sold 3000.the xbox 360 and 720 ship is sinking.....fast.and the gow2 live vest wont keep them from drowning.JUMP OUT!

[kurochi]

FTW!!!!

[Sez]

you got to love sonyfanboys. ready to bash 360 when ever there a hint of bad news for MS. sony has one good month and sonyfanboys think it's the end of MS. by the way didn't 360 out sell ps3 in japan when AC6 was released. was that the end of ps3 in japan(no).so do us all a favor (including yourselves) STFU until sony actully outsell 360 by months. not just one month.

ps. by the was at least it never sold under 100k. think before you start casting stone.

@below. yeah provide a link. cause the only month it outsold the 360 was last month. 360 outsold the ps3 every month until last month. nov was when ps3 drop the price for the second time. after wii and 360 hand sony it's a@@ on a plater. and 360 sold over 1mil units for dec. stop reaching ok

[heyheyhey]

actually i think it outsold the 360 in January, December and November and maybe some other month

so yeah the month of January wasn't just a one-off

[Superiorrior]

Sony has one good month? PerfectionStation 3 outsold Xbox in 2007 and in the the last couple months in NA alone, please educate yourself.

[rawd]

You have to understand that the average 360 user doesn't realize there is more to the world then North America

[heyheyhey]

@rawd

yeah Americans tend to be a close-minded and easily brainwashed bunch