Xbox 360 breaks sales records in Australia

The Xbox 360 has become the fastest-selling console in Australia, shifting over 100,000 units since its release in March this year.

The previous record was held by Sony, with the PlayStation 2 selling 78,000 units during its first seven months on sale.

"Our figures show that Xbox 360 has been the fastest ever console to sell 100,000 units in Australia, reaching that mark in just seven months," said Daniel Morse, senior account manager at GfK Australia.

With software sales amounting to 400,000 according to GfK, the 360 continues its strong performance in the region, where it also became the fastest-selling console at launch, selling over 30,000 units in just four days.

[zypher]

eh. 100,000 in 7 months is considered a lot? ;) guess we all now know which market is the least important (no offense to Australians...i was just kidding with ya). even still, if its a record broken then i guess kudos are in order for Microsoft. good job!

[BIadestarX]

"PlayStation 2 selling 78,000" It is considered more than 78,000 now is it? Why is this important? You tell me.

[TheMART]

With only about 20 million people living in Australia I guess that's a nice number to sell. Especially when the PS2 sold 78.000 there, the 360 sold 20% more.

[zypher]

huh? i congratulate Microsoft, and i'm still getting slammed? yeah, they broke a record; and i congratulated them. i'm just curious as to the importance of this, especially since the 360 sells almost that much a month in the US alone. 360 fans dog Japan as being a dwindling market, which i find suspect, considering the PS2, PSP and DS consistantly sell in the tens-of-thousands there on a weekly basis. so, how can Japan be said to be a dwindling market (while selling in the neighborhood of 200,000 DS', and 100'000 PS2's and PSP's a month), but Microsoft's 100,000-in-seven-month's win in Australia is a good thing?

[specialguest]

congradulations Microsoft and Australia. now is it true that the water flushes down counter clockwise over there?

[tom1595]

YUP! isnt it great!

[tom1595]

... but we call it "anti clockwise":)

[PS3n360]

This explains the heat down there hehe. Congrats to MS on a strong start in Oz.

[ACE]

ms has done a good job this time round , with the big games just around the corner , its all good :) . as for water flushing counter clockwise yes it does .

[THWIP]

...if the water goes the opposite direction....wouldn't your poo spill out onto your shoes? :(

[UrbanJabroni]

...took me a second. :)

[The Milkman]

Whos Slamming who?.....Im still having trouble on what Zypher is talking about but anyway..

Thats cool MS broke a console record in Australia thats definately not bad news even though its 100 thousand its a good sign that Xbox 360 is showing people the things they realy want.

[NextGen24Gamer]

Good news indeed. Fastest console in historty to sell 5 million consoles PERIOD. Fastest selling console in Australia. Most games to console attatch ratio in history. Most accessories sold per console in history. I'm sure more records broken by MS is to come with them launching in many other territories. Thanks Microsoft. And the 360 sells 250 to 300 thousand a month in the USA. MS is selling 360's worldwide...so they only allot a certain amount per territory. And its good to see they are selling out even with the looming ps3 and wii launches. At TGS MS announced that they are right on schedual to selling 10 million by the end of the year. And Japan is on the rise selling 100k of the blue dragon 360 combos. Selling 10k in less than 5 minutes in Japan. SO by the end of the year in Japan the total sales of the 360 could be at 250 thousand easily. Thanks microsoft.

[HyperBear]

This sis great news, but it is too bad that it wasnt hear in North America, but i guess n oone will be able to beat PS2, i think, who has the record in North America, but w/e, we know Xbox 360 is great whereever your playing it at. And yea, Japan, has never been a Xbox Fan, cause Xbox has always been the FPS console of consoles. More than 50% of all games on Xbox and so far on Xbox 360 have some form of shooting or killing in them, and Japanese arent really used to that. They like the anime stuff and the weird magical powers and stuff. And Europe i heard is doing ok, because of the PS3 getting delayed, many of them have resorted to getting a 360, I would too. Oh Um TopGamer, I was wonderin man, if you were able to get a 2nd PS3, how much would you sell it to me for, just in case I cant get one on Launch over here in Canada. So let me know man, TTYL.

[tom1595]

i think the xbox360 suits the aussie life style a bit more than the ps2 did or the ps3 will (i think). its just got this image about it that we prefer. and thats truly why i think its doing better.