Xbox 360 Selling Better Than The Original Xbox


Recommended Posts

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12405/Xbox-3...-Original-Xbox/

Xbox 360 Selling Better Than The Original Xbox

By: C?sar A. Berardini - "Cesar"

Dec. 8th, 2006 7:23 am>

According to sales data from The NPD Group, U.S. sales of the Xbox 360 video game system during its first 13 months in stores were 6 percent higher than comparable sales of the original Xbox, which launched in November 2001.

Since it was released on November 2005, gamers bought 3.79 million units of the Xbox 360. In comparison, the Xbox sold 3.57 million units in its first 13 months in stores.

Microsoft has announced it expects to surpass its previously forecast global shipments of 10 million by the end of 2006, because the company already anticipates to sell more than 10 million Xbox 360s into retail.

A Power Point presentation used by Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on a Nasdaq investor conference also showed that the Xbox 360 is outpacing the original Xbox.

xbox360vsXbox_first13months.jpg

1.9 million units have to be sold in 22 days :o thats pretty steep but i think it can be done

christmas! have faith.. the 360's have been SHIPPED, and are in stores right now, or on route to stores. the shopping for consoles will be starting now till december 24th. also, on december 26th (day after christmas, aka boxing day in canada) they sell like HOTCAKES!

Good for Microsoft. I am really unsure of how the Xbox will fare this time around...

I think it'll fare better than the first. I was a little worried at first, but the 360 is selling faster than the first one and is already making a profit on hardware.

MicrosoftTV? Is that just the new name for WebTV?

Microsoft TV includes products like the "TV Foundation" software - which is used by cable companies like Comcast (in certain areas) and digital set-top boxes like those from Motorola. We have them in Seattle - they tend to be easily recognizeable since the program guide says "Microsoft Enhanced" in the corner. Some perks of it include way faster video-on-demand programming than most competitors (I used to have Time Warner in NY and their on-demand stuff was dog slow), and better video quality.

What that slide was mentioning, though, is the Microsoft TV "IPTV edition" - which is entirely internet-based television being offered through certain telephone companies - usually along with fiber channel access. Many companies are in "commercial trials" with the service right now - I think Verizon and SBC are among them but not completely sure what the status of those offerings is.

http://www.microsoft.com/tv/IPTVEdition.mspx

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • If you have a TV in your living room, chances are you can probably just use the Steam Link app and play your huge PC in big picture mode, effectively giving you the Steam Machine experience to see if you'd actually like it. The good news is the Steam Machine can have it's drives upgraded. It has a USB-C 10Gbs port as well, so the 512GB drive could be quickly moved to an external enclosure and repurposed.
    • This machine could very well be a second gaming PC for their living room as a console experience. So we would have to assume their main PC exists as well; With that said, I have 10gb home network with a 2.5gigabit internet connection here so we tend to have more than enough speed to download games. However, we can't make use of the 10gb LAN using Steam's built in transfer tool because it always compresses transfers and that slows the transfer down to well below a standard gigabit port speeds, sometimes as slow as 200-300Mb/s transfers. While that's probably still faster than most internet connections anyway, if they'd fix the LAN transfer issue it'd be upto x5 faster even on a gigabit LAN, than simply dropping a 2.5gbe port on there with hopes of a few people having fast internet connections. There are solutions, work arounds, like using LANCache if you run a NAS... or simply copying the files over manually using a network share.
    • Samsung announces ultra-fast UFS 5.0 storage to supercharge mobile AI by Paul Hill Local AI models tend to run a lot more slowly than cloud services like Claude and Gemini; however, Samsung has just announced that it has developed its UFS 5.0 solution, which increases data transfer to speeds of 10.8GB/s, enabling faster storage and processing in mobile memory that has the potential to provide more optimal local AI experiences. Commenting on this development, Jangseok Choi, head of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics, said: If you’ve tried local AI, you’ll know it can be quite slow, especially if using the larger parameter models. By developing this new solution, Samsung says that storage is evolving from just storing data to a core piece of infrastructure that supports AI computation, too. The Korean company said that UFS 5.0 integrates the latest embedded memory interface standard from JEDEC and achieves up to 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s) transfer speeds. Regarding write speeds, Samsung UFS 5.0 can reach 9.5 GB/s. Both the read and write speeds are twice as fast as those of the previous UFS 4.1 standard. Aside from being ideal for local AI, Samsung’s UFS 5.0 is more power efficient by 40% compared to UFS 4.1. Samsung achieved this by implementing innovations such as clock gating and multi-voltage technologies. UFS 5.0 is also ultra-compact at just 7.5mm x 13mm x 0.9mm; that is 16.7% smaller than UFS 4.1. The company said it will be bringing it to multiple devices in the future, including mobile, wearable, and extended reality.
    • A bit like the steamdeck, this probably isn't for you.
    • Gamers Nexus already did their review, and building your own will be faster and cheaper, so not very convincing.
  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      Almohandis earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Rookie
      dorf went up a rank
      Rookie
    • First Post
      mike_rumble earned a badge
      First Post
    • Dedicated
      tuben earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      mnsgroup earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      496
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      209
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      99
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      86
    5. 5
      neufuse
      69
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!