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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: MAKAVELIUK on March 19, 2002, 11:46:58 AM
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Microsoft UK has confirmed the official ChartTrack sales figures for the Xbox in its first days in the UK. Its performance in the rest of Europe remains shrouded in mystery, and we’ve heard some pretty diabolical figures for Ireland on the quiet already.
Microsoft has not yet confirmed how many it made available in the UK, but C&VG, breaking the news, conservatively estimates 80,000, of which 48,000 were apparently sold. To put that into perspective, Sony sold roughly 70,000 PlayStation 2 units in its first weekend.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, PS2 would have sold a lot more if the supply was there, as evidenced by sales figures leaked to EuroGamer recently, which saw sales across the first couple of months spike regularly as new shipments arrived. Indeed, some weekly figures were as high as 30,000 more than a month after the console’s launch.
Analysts are already clamouring to adjust their estimates. As far as we’re concerned though, it looks as though everybody who wanted an Xbox bought one. It’ll be another week before we see how badly sales have turned downward, however.
Meanwhile, although Microsoft has confirmed the figures, it has not issued a press release. We’re waiting with baited breath to see how they spin this one.
In terms of software, Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons of Liberty topped the charts, followed by Halo. The next best selling Xbox title being Project Gotham Racing. Microsoft is also claiming a 2.5 game sellthrough per console - arguably the most impressive aspect of the lauch, but in a lot of cases online retailers hid non-bundled deals from immediate view, and obligatory bundles were definitely the order of the day in many of the high street stores we visited.
source:
http://www.eurogamer.net/news.php?id=20654
Around 10.000 Xboxes were sold in the first 3 days (03/14-03/16) in Germany. The estimated attach rate is 1:2 based on retail information.
source:
http://www.mcvonline.de/?article_id=38395
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Sounds good enough for MS. :D
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Originally posted by pstwo
Sounds good enough for MS. :D
Sony sold roughly 70,000 PlayStation 2 units in its first weekend.
X Box sold 10,000 units
oh yeah Good news for M$$$$$$4:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
only a massive gap to cross before they are anywere near a possition to challange Sony
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I was just about to post this news, look like you beat me to it.
Anyway good news for the Xbox, i mean 3 of my brothers friends brought xbox\'s over the first 3 days, and these were school kids, with one of them buying 5 games with his box.
But the thing is, is can they keep these sales up, i mean it was the launch week, so i would like to see what the figures are for the secound week, i don\'t think they will be as high, but i hope they are so there is alot of compitition, which means better things for us guys.
Anyway enough of that, back to GTA3 to finshes it off.
I love gaming at the moment, i just wish there was more hours in aday.
:D
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
I was just about to post this news, look like you beat me to it.
Anyway good news for the Xbox, i mean 3 of my brothers friends brought xbox\'s over the first 3 days, and these were school kids, with one of them buying 5 games with his box.
:D
:eek:
X box =£299
5 X box games= £45 each (£225)
mem card = £ 30
total= £554
err Ethan
were these boys PRIVATE SCHOOL Boys ?
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Originally posted by ooseven
Sony sold roughly 70,000 PlayStation 2 units in its first weekend.
X Box sold 10,000 units
oh yeah Good news for M$$$$$$4:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
only a massive gap to cross before they are anywere near a possition to challange Sony
ooseven that was in germany what they sold 10,000.
In the UK they sold 48,000, and the PS2 sold 70,000, that is not bad for a console that hasen\'t got a well known name.
But i would like to have seen how many PS2 they could of sold, if they had more supply in the UK, i bett hey could have doubled that PS2 figure easy.
And i couldn\'t believe it when i was told he brought 5 games ooseven, i nearly fell over, i bet he emptyed his bank, just like my brothers over 2 friends. Heeeeheehehe
Also he didn\'t have to buy a memory card(second controller), because he has the hard drive, i love that thing, much btter then haveing to keep buying memory cards, i had to buy two PS2 memory cards just to have to saved games of GT3, what a rip off.
P.s he does not go to private school, i never had that kind of money when i was at school, oh yeah maybe that was because i was a lazy bastard!!:D
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
ooseven that was in germany what they sold 10,000.
In the UK they sold 48,000, and the PS2 sold 70,000, that is not bad for a console that hasen\'t got a well known name.
But i would like to have seen how many PS2 they could of sold, if they had more supply in the UK, i bett hey could have doubled that PS2 figure easy.
And i couldn\'t believe it when i was told he brought 5 games ooseven, i nearly fell over, i bet he emptyed his bank, just like my brothers over 2 friends. Heeeeheehehe
Tell me about it !
i am still trying to trck down a PS2 mem card when i have the money !
they are very much in DEMAND !
along with the console itself !
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p.s.
Microsoft whould sell more IF they had their console a reasonable price !
ooseven grabs his wallet and shakes itat the screen
Hey bill gates if you read this ill buy your console for no more than £200
lets make a deal ;)
ah well if that don\'t work then at least i can just wait for a European Price drop :(
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I tell you what ooseven, just think if the PS2 sales keep up like this, just think what the PS3 will sell like!
I hope that the xbox is around, so they make an Xbox2, the sales of that should be good, then that will be the best console war, when you have 3 well know compays in the console market with a well know named console, just think of that the technology will be like and the GRAPHICS!!
p.s have you tryed EB online to get a memory card? at least then you could order one, and as soon as they get it in, they will send it, then you won\'t keep missing shipments, just a suggestion dude.
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Originally posted by ooseven
p.s.
Microsoft whould sell more IF they had their console a reasonable price !
ooseven grabs his wallet and shakes itat the screen
Hey bill gates if you read this ill buy your console for no more than £200
lets make a deal ;)
I think there are alot of people the same as you ooseven,and it is the price putting them off, but once that price drop kicks i think that is when the console will kick off big time.
Will you get an Xbox ooseven when the price goes down to £200?
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
p.s have you tryed EB online to get a memory card? at least then you could order one, and as soon as they get it in, they will send it, then you won\'t keep missing shipments, just a suggestion dude.
thanks mate i ll give that a try.
i already have two of them and i am thinking of a thrid as space is rstarting to run out !
anyway back to the X box
i know i bash it on a daily basis but its just because of the PRICE (me no likeie the idea of parting with 51% more than the americans did )
so what i am hopping for is for Sony and Nintendo to "force" MS hand into dropping the price in Europe
hey Ethan you said you got a US X box version
is there a Region lock like the other consoels or will any X box let you play any import ?
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Ah Ethan beat me to it,.
But as he already mentioned it was supposedly 48k sales for the Xbox, not too shabby taking all things into consideration.
Realistically speaking, no company is going to top Sony. They are on a roll, and have nothing but momentum.
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well, not worst case scenario (like japan).. yet
to see if worst case scenario comes to pass will have to wait till next week.. when 2nd week sales are released
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
Originally posted by ooseven
p.s.
I think there are alot of people the same as you ooseven,and it is the price putting them off, but once that price drop kicks i think that is when the console will kick off big time.
Will you get an Xbox ooseven when the price goes down to £200?
Hell yeah
cos GUNVALKYRIE should be out around the same time as a price drop ... i HOPE :(
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
ooseven that was in germany what they sold 10,000.
In the UK they sold 48,000, and the PS2 sold 70,000, that is not bad for a console that hasen\'t got a well known name.
:laughing: :laughing: Thanks Ethan_Hunt. I was just about give up aready.
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Originally posted by pstwo
:laughing: :laughing: Thanks Ethan_Hunt. I was just about give up aready.
Damn ..... he was going to give up ;) :p
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Originally posted by ooseven
thanks mate i ll give that a try.
i already have two of them and i am thinking of a thrid as space is rstarting to run out !
anyway back to the X box
i know i bash it on a daily basis but its just because of the PRICE (me no likeie the idea of parting with 51% more than the americans did )
so what i am hopping for is for Sony and Nintendo to "force" MS hand into dropping the price in Europe
hey Ethan you said you got a US X box version
is there a Region lock like the other consoels or will any X box let you play any import ?
Hey ooseven i can understand about the price of the console,i mean for some people it could be half a months wages after tax, and that is without buying a game!!
But people seem to forget that the PS2 was the same price, but a big deal wasn\'t really made of it, not like the Xbox, but anyway back to the Xbox.
Also dude the Xbox does have a region lock, but i think it is only in the software, not the hardware, i was hoping that developers wouldn\'t add it to the game, but it looks like they have.
So i am just wait for a boot disk or something, even though if it is in software it could be harder to crack then if it was in hardware,or that is what i have heard.