Xbox 360's Million-Sellers

deep - 400 days 15 hours ago

Wondering? You knew.

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darkride66 - 400 days 13 hours ago

Sure it wasn't great - but I had a blast with the last Simpson's game. The gameplay wasn't fantastic but it was more than made up for by the smart writing. A must play for every Simpsons fan. It made me laugh out loud on a few occasions. I mean, come on! You square off in a Dance, Dance Revolution contest against God.

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prowiew - 400 days 6 hours ago

Viva pinata is on that list. Thats awesome. Loved the game.

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ambientFLIER - 400 days 6 hours ago

Who bought the Simpsons game? Uh...Simpsons fans? Are you honestly surprised that the millions and millions of people who love that show bought the game?

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Legion - 399 days 19 hours ago

PS3 has been humbled by the might that is 360. Just goes to prove that 360 sells games. PS3 has yet to live up to its hype. It is nothing but a Bluray seller. I'm bored already... with B3yond.

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kevnb - 399 days 17 hours ago

its a budget title now, its funny, and is great co-op fun especially if your wife/girlfriend is normally a non-gamer but a Simpsons fan. GOTY? No, but fun yes.

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Twizlex - 400 days 18 hours ago

Haha, I got pissed off at Assassin's Creed because I kept trying to grab ledges before I got the "ledge-grabbing gloves" and I eventually moved on to another game.

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AclayPS3 - 400 days 17 hours ago

You need to get your numbers right. The 360 is at around 22 million worldwide and the PS3 around the 17 million mark.

"All the 360 needs is Metal Gear"

The 360 needs more first party games, that's what it needs, not more Playstation franchise games that are still going to be on the PS3.

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Twizlex - 400 days 17 hours ago

While your numbers are more accurate, there is still a 5 million difference between them in your numbers and die_fiend's, so I don't see why it matters THAT much.

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die_fiend - 400 days 17 hours ago

Oh ok, least I got the 5 million gap correct so no matter. 360 doesn't need more first party games, Halo, Gears, Mass Effect, Fable, Ninja Gaiden 2 will all do fine thanks, since they're all AAA. No what it needs are the 'playstation franchises' (how are they playstation franchises? They're not made by Sony...) as quite a few of them are games I want, Devil may Cry, GTA 4 and FF13 would be a reason to get a PS3 but since they're coming to 360 I don't need 2. Y would I need more first party games when those third party games are essential? I'd rather have FF13 over most games. Also Microsoft profit majorly from having them as they all sell better on the 360 so those profits get passed on to us gamers...I didn't make a single penny? I don't normally expect to be paid for gaming, but Microsoft selling millions more is better for me as I own a 360 fool.

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N4PS3G - 400 days 15 hours ago

@ aclayps3

i think you need to get your numbers right

may i ask

why is it that you use sony's sale numbers : ( 17 millions )

but you can't use Micosoft's sales number? ( near 25 millions )

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Diamondwolf - 400 days 15 hours ago

I think, I think...I THINK..............it's because Microsoft's last posted Sales number is 22 million.

Unless you can provide another link besides the one where they are SHOOTING for 25 million then it's 22 pimp. Me personally I say 23 but they posted 22

and if you are being accurate and technical, sony's last posted was like 16.7 or 16.8 but who likes to play with decimals.

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N4PS3G - 400 days 14 hours ago

" Xbox 360 poised to break 25 million barrier"

"by the end of this month we expect our global installed base to reach 25 million units, surpassing that of the first Xbox."

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

If you want to believe it or not ..then its up to you ..its not like they are shooting for 25 in 2009 ...its supposed to happend at the end of the month ...thats why i said NEAR 25 million

So if he believes sony's numbers..i find no reason for him not to post MS's numbers

so if they are hittin 25 this month ..i don't see a reason for the sales to be at 22 right now

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darkride66 - 400 days 14 hours ago

How many million plus sellers did the 360 have at the end of year 2? If you answered right around 15-17, you'd be correct. Actually, that's a little better than the PS3 when you consider that at the end of 2 years the 360 had just over 13 million consoles where the PS3 has 17 million at the 2 year mark. I'd be curious to see how much software sales for the PS3 stack up in total vs the 360 at the end of it's 2nd year.

Edit. As for the sales numbers, MS is using their shipped numbers. They last reported 22 million, but consider last year they sold 1 million in November and seem on track to do slightly below that this year, plus they're shipping consoles to stores in preparation for December - so that 25 million figure is factoring in Nov and Dec sales already.

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Sheddi - 400 days 9 hours ago

360: 22*0,67 = 15 Million in 3 years (RROD).
PS3: 17 Million in 2 Years.
Ahhh now who's laughing, I can also play with numbers!

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xhairs9 - 400 days 5 hours ago

umm the number of software sold has absolutely nothing to do with AAA status.

Your comment is poor at best, your ideology is incredibly bogus as well. I actually chuckled when I found this because I was waiting for someone to claim all these games to be AAA, when in fact, they are NOT ALL AAA.

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SaberEdge - 400 days ago

darkride66, you're full of it.

The Xbox 360 actually has 38 games on that list that were million+ sellers from its first two years.

So the 360 has had more than twice the number of million+ sellers in its first two years as the PS3 has had in its first two years. 38 vs 17. Count it up for yourself if you don't believe me. 38 of those games on the 360 list are from the 360's first two years.

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kevnb - 399 days 17 hours ago

third party games aren't playstation brand games, nintendo is just not all that great at attracting third parties. Sony already knows they can't rely on third parties anymore, this is why they bought up so many studios.

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PimpHandHappy - 400 days 12 hours ago

there lies the problem

HYPE

on its own merit it was one of the best FPS's on PS2! Why dont you try this

4get about the hype and just play games

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kevnb - 399 days 16 hours ago

but I hated it because it was complete trash. Killzone 2 looks to be really good though.

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ceedubya9 - 400 days 15 hours ago

probably isn't anywhere close to that. I doubt it has that many games selling that much, but it probably has a handful or a bit more first party titles that have sold a crap load.

Some of the same Wii games are constantly in the top 10 every month. They make a killing off of 1st party software. Except for Wii music anyway...

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Milo Garret - 400 days 14 hours ago

Some games are missing, I know for a fact that ninja gaiden 2 sold more than a mill, and I refuse to believe that the orange box sold less than 1000000.

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darkride66 - 400 days 14 hours ago

Guess what? It's about what the PS3's attach rate is now at the 2 year mark.

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Gam71 - 400 days 13 hours ago

darkride,

buy a new record.

You don't seem to want to live in the today and now. Wonder why?
(cos the ps3 isn't just second but last and you can't handle that)
You seem obsessed with comparing the xbox a year ago with the ps3 today.
Why?

The article is about million sellers TO DATE. not at comparative points in their lifespan.

Tell me, when the wii million sellers are released what will you say then? What about the ps3's week head start?

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Fruit Loops - 400 days 8 hours ago

the only thing you can do on a 360 is PLAY games.

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SaberEdge - 399 days 23 hours ago

darkrider66, even comparing like for like (i.e. the first 23 months) the 360 still has a higher attach rate.

This from 1UP:
"As you can see above, the average Xbox 360 owner has 6.6 games for his or her console, while the average Wii gamer has 5.5, and the PlayStation 3 owner has 5.3. One important thing to keep in mind is that this chart shows attach rates for the first 23 months of each system's release, meaning the 360 numbers are only though September 2007, while the Wii and PS3 numbers are through September 2008 (if you add in the extra year the 360 has at retail, its total attach rate stands at 8.1)."
http://www.1up.com/do/newsS...

So please quit pulling things out of thin air to support your bias for the PS3. It's ok to have a preference for the PS3, but please support your claims with facts and not just random BS.

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Algonath - 400 days 9 hours ago

yea that is true, immature bias f*nboys can agree or disagree all they want. The 360 does sell ALOT of games. Even more than the PS3 and I AM a hardcore PS3 supporter too. So you other PS3 brothas out there can shove it on this one.

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fjtorres - 400 days 14 hours ago

Not only are they missing a couple of big sellers, some of those numbers look low. Like Mass Effect hit 2.1 million *last* XMAS. Arewe to believe its sold nothing since then? Even though its currently running under $30?
But it gets worse, those are just disk-based sales.
So far, MS has sold over a Billion bucks worth of downloadable content via Live. And they've just about tripled the number of Movies on VM in two years, added TV content from pretty much every network, and now Netflix streaming.

And that's not the scary news; the scary news is XNA Community Games.
MS isn't just after the hearts and minds of fanboys or game publishers; they're going after the next generation of *developers*.

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darkride66 - 400 days 14 hours ago

"It appears as if 360 has already won the software war this gen which is more important to developers and gamers then console sales. The difference is huge with 360 selling 104.1 million against the PS3 only selling 37.9 million."

Where are these numbers coming from? For 2007, Sony reported over 52 million software titles sold for the PS3. This one always makes me laugh when people claim the PS3 is only a Blu-Ray player. Worldwide Blu-Ray disk sales were just over 10 million for 2007, and not all to PS3 owners. Clearly more software is sold than Blu-Ray disks. In fact, look at PS3 sales charts and add them up. So far, going into the Christmas season the PS3 has moved about 83 million titles - so we're looking at an attach rate of 5. Guess what the 360's attach rate was approx 2 years in. 5.3, with 4 million less consoles sold than the PS3 has now.

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darkride66 - 400 days 13 hours ago

fjtorres said "Not only are they missing a couple of big sellers, some of those numbers look low. Like Mass Effect hit 2.1 million *last* XMAS."

No it didn't. I released Nov 30th and sold just about 900k in the first month. It has sold over 2 million now, a year later.
Also, movie content is nice on XBL, if you can get it. Most of the world has a very limited selection of titles on XBL, it's only the US that's really getting the full benefit of this, and that doesn't look like it's going to change with the Netflix deal. Again - only available for the US to start with and no time frame for anyone else. No wonder the 360 is losing the battle for hearts and minds everywhere but the United States.

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darkride66 - 400 days 13 hours ago

thenickel said "Edit above: I was talking about games that sold in the millions. Of course PS3 is more then a bluray player but you can't deny that it's far far away from 360 numbers."

I can and I just did. Two years in the 360 has moved about 13 million units with an attach rate of 5.3, so that gives us just short of 69 million software titles sold. So, not only is the PS3 selling more consoles in it's first 2 years over what the 360 did, it's selling more software as well.

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Gam71 - 400 days 13 hours ago

Darkride its not selling more software.

The 360 and wii are.

360 4,414,782 (+48%) 165,003,939 7.32
wii 2,999,005 (-3%) 183,466,168 5.10
ps3 2,427,271 (+12%) 84,256,247 5.04

see, which has sold more.

I'm sure the people who track sales and publishers, devs etc look at the figures and say, well where was the xbox last year compared to the ps3 today?
nope they see the ACTUAL figures. They don't have to twist and adjust and spin the figures to suit their ego and to justify their purchase.

You argument is as lame as you.

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darkride66 - 400 days 13 hours ago

Gam71 said "Darkride its not selling more software."
Dude, did you not read my post? Of course the 360 has sold more software overall. I'm saying if you compare apples to apples here, take the PS3 now at 2 years in vs the 360 last November, 2 years in - the PS3 has had a better first 2 years than the 360 did with more software and more consoles moved - and that's with a higher price point and stiffer competition.
Nothing is being twisted here, that's just the facts. If developers simply looked at sales like you're implying - no one would have made a single game for the 360, we'd all be playing PS2 still (which actually, a lot of people are doing).

I'm a 360 and a PS3 owner. I don't need to justify either purchase. Playing both Gears 2 and Resistance 2 is justification enough for me.

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Gam71 - 400 days 12 hours ago

Hey darkride compare apples with apples then.

You want to take the total ps3 sales yet only the first 2 years of the 360.
Why don't you compare the total 360 sales with the total ps3 sales like everyone else is.

You want to twist it so that a whole years worth of sales are ignored.
Wonder why?

You can't say "look at total lifetime sales of brand B but only x amount of time sales for brand A"

You want to do it your way. OK compare the software sales for the 360 and ps3 for the total amount of time they have BOTH been on sale together.

That means you ignore the firstyear of the 360 and compare the last 2 years worth.
That's fairer as you want to include sales from when the 360 was the only next gen console and not sales made in this last year which have continued to rise and rise for the 360.

And someone want to discredit the 360's achievements does not own a 360.
Saying you own a 360 does not make you bile against it more credible.

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Rhythmattic - 400 days 15 hours ago

I wonder how many were re-bought due to the 360's Scratching disks problem ? Why do games shops offer Scratch insurance ?

Maybe it all counts as sold in the end.

Just a thought...

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Kleptic - 400 days 6 hours ago

yeah...the 360 is a great system for 3rd party publishers to make samey annual sequels to extremely mediocre games...and still sell over a million of them...

seriously...the simpsons game?...Dead or Alive 4?...Fight Night round 3?...Need for speed: about 3 sold over a million on the 360, and all sucked worse than the last installment...

yeah...thats simply awesome for everyone...save maybe people that don't buy the same crap over and over...don't get me wrong, there are a lot of great games on that list...but also a lot of very average rentals at best...which reflects that this generation is hugely starved in terms of quality...

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sak500 - 400 days 12 hours ago

Hahahh good one. 3-4 exclusives were being bundled free with ps3 and in some cases bravias were given free with ps3 and still it sucks at hardware/software sales. Only pathetic sales happening are due to movie watchers buying it.

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