1.5 million xbox sold!!!

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020108/sftu025_1.html


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Xbox Launch One Of Most Successful In Video Game History
Xbox to Launch in Japan, Europe and Australia in Coming Months

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) announced today at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that the Xbox(TM) video game system had one of the most successful launches in video game history. Microsoft sold 1.5 million units in North America between the Nov. 15 launch and the end of calendar year 2001. In addition, the NPD Group Inc. has reported that gamers bought more than three games with every Xbox system, the highest-ever game attach rate for a video game console launch.


``It feels great to kick off the global rollout of Xbox with a record-breaking launch in North America,\'\' said Robbie Bach, senior vice president and chief Xbox officer at Microsoft. ``In 2002, we\'re excited to bring Xbox to the world with our upcoming launches in Japan, Europe and Australia. We\'ll also be offering more great games and exciting online experiences like never before.\'\'


The success of the North American launch has fueled worldwide excitement for Xbox, which is on track to launch in Japan on Feb. 22, and in Europe and Australia on March 14. In Monday\'s CES keynote address, Bach discussed the company\'s commitment to making Xbox a global success and showed new, cutting-edge Xbox game titles, including ``JSRF - Jet Set Radio Future\'\' from Sega and ``RalliSport Challenge\'\' from Microsoft® Game Studios.














Hmmmmmmmmmm........Microsoft is doing pretty good for there first try.  Not to bad.

over 45 days?

what took so long?  good thing they werent completly sold out.

oh well, ill play amped then till mm comes home

Originally posted by Clyde
over 45 days?

what took so long?  good thing they werent completly sold out.

oh well, ill play amped then till mm comes home

Actually I thought that was pretty fast Clyde.  Xbox were pretty hard to find around christmas time.

This is great news!  I can\'t wait to hear how UK and Japan launch will turn out.  

pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?

Originally posted by Clyde
pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?

Welcome canadian chimp

Originally posted by Clyde
pretty hard to find, but not impossible eh?

True..........

Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"

Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"

lol!!!!!!Xbox is a great system.

I went to Best Buy today and they had one PS2 left and a couple Xbox\'s and a few game cubes, looks like consoles are on the top of peoples list

dont let the number of systems on shelves fool you. At my store we have 70-some on the shelve (another 150 are in the back...no joke), 20-some XBoxs (another 6 in the back), and 12 GC.

One could assume that we sell more GCs than the others, but to tell you the truth, we havent sold a GC in 4 days. We sold 4 XBoxs today and 7 PS2s.


Eric Jacob

Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Rastalant your all over the X-box man. Your title should be, "Microsoft Correspondent"

I think he works for them

But who cares? He loves the xbox. Good on him.
He\'s cool

xbox\'s where pretty hard to find here too if you did not hurry and get one. And Halo, or Doa3 is never on shelves. I am glad xbox is doing great 1.5million that\'s good.

In my area (well, San Jose) Xbox the system itself was a little hard to find during the week prior to Christmas, but I found plenty of games for it. From Halo to DOA3. And after Christmas, if I really wanted an Xbox then and there, I could still go up in some stores (KB Toy Stores, Electronic Botique) and they would have plenty of Xboxes in stock. So getting an Xbox isn\'t a problem in my area at least after the Christmas holiday (and if worse comes to worse, even ordering online could recieve results. In fact, my cousin who had her credit card stolen recieved two Xboxes through the mail thanks to the culprit buying two on her card [apparently they couldn\'t get the delivered Xboxes to themselves...too bad]. She is in the process of returning at least one of them [if she hasn\'t returned it already]. Probably the other one too since she isn\'t much of a gamer [though there is room for intervention if someone decides to buy one off her]).

Yeah well done M$ :rolleyes:  1.5 million sales in just 45 days :rolleyes:

when compaired to the PS2 where it was over 1 million in just a few hours :rolleyes:

looks like Sonys Screwed :rolleyes: