Halo effect not enough to prevent Xbox 360 sales decline

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Even though Microsoft's best selling game came out right before the holiday quarter, sales of the Xbox 360 console dipped slightly year-over-year.

Microsoft said it had shipped 4.3 million consoles during the final calendar quarter of 2007, down 2.3% from the year previous. Halo 3 was released about a week before the quarter began.

Halo provided a significant boost to the Redmond company's bottom line, breaking records for sales in its first week -- some $300 million. 2.7 million played the game over Xbox Live in the first week alone.

But the success was only enough to essentially keep pace with market-leading Nintendo, and its not all that speculative to conclude that if the game had not been released, Xbox 360's slide would have been much steeper.


>> Source: BetaNews

 

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Probably because everyone already has one or is scared to buy one...

 

[murdocsvan]

what sort of news is that? thats like saying "everyday, thousands of people die!". Of course the sales are going to drop! thats like saying that the NES was a crap console because sales have significantly dropped in the past decade. and you said "year after year". thats implies its been out longer than 2 years, which is hardly a substantial time frame to base a claim like that. and what sort of decrease is 2.3%? there are only going to be so many people who buy the console. you expect it to keep the sales up year after year until there are more consoles than people? 4.7 million consoles sold in a year is hardly a small figure, when each one costs about £250, which is the cheapest price. thats about £1 billion gross revenue if you do the math.