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Xbox 360 Hits 20 million

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According to VGCHartz Microsoft has just reached a major milestone.

Currently its sales break down as follows

Japan – 0.64 Million
EU & Others – 7.26 Million
America – 12.09 Million

If you add all those up you get 20.01 Million units. Putting it in a comfortable second spot to the Wii and still 6.5 million ahead of the PS3.

Another 4 million more and it will overtake the original Xbox’s sales and with a healthy Christmas line up to come with another Gears of War we can expect it to easily do that.

Last week the Wii outsold the 360 2:1 in world markets so don’t expect it to catch up anytime soon. It did however have a decent lead over the PS3’s weekly sales which is a suprise after the PS3’s recent (Jan 2009-now) run…

Last Updated: August 4, 2008

13 Comments

  1. Fox1

    August 4, 2008 at 15:12

    Now can we please get a drop in the prices of games? 🙁

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  2. kabraal

    August 4, 2008 at 16:09

    Cool. There’s something wrong with your math though. 20-14.5=5.5

    No biggie, but 1+1 does infact equal 2 😉

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  3. Avayaik

    August 4, 2008 at 16:43

    Not likely…

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  4. Milesh Bhana

    August 4, 2008 at 17:57

    right, so only 80 million to go to catch up to the PS2.

    Go Microsoft!

    Milesh Bhana’s last blog post..Recycle, recycle, recycle.

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  5. ocelot

    August 4, 2008 at 19:11

    More like 120 million to catch up.

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  6. LazySAGamer

    August 4, 2008 at 22:02

    lol… and can you believe that Maths used to be my strong point..

    or is this just more proof of me being a 360 fanboy 🙄

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  7. doobiwan

    August 5, 2008 at 06:47

    Okay, so that’s it Microsoft win, everyone can go home now. 😉

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  8. ewie

    August 5, 2008 at 08:34

    will be interesting to see what the price drop is doing. But more important all the JRPG released in japan and the effect on console sales. With every previous release a huge spike was seen in japan. With tales to sell 80000 units on release and infinate undescovery in a few weeks. Expect 360 to outsell ps3 in august and september in japan

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  9. Milesh Bhana ZA

    August 5, 2008 at 08:43

    that’s the one thing i don’t get .. wtf are they not releasing FF13 for 360 in Japan?

    Milesh Bhana ZA’s last blog post..Condemned: Criminal Origins [360]

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  10. Chevron

    August 5, 2008 at 08:48

    The because console manufactures work on the razor blade model. The sell you a razor at cost and mark up the blades heavily.

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  11. LazySAGamer

    August 5, 2008 at 08:48

    360 outsell anything in Japan 😯

    never 😛

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  12. ewie

    August 5, 2008 at 08:51

    Maby sony pulling the last shareholding say they have. Or more likely the development for the japan version is just too far and they dont want to delay it

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  13. ocelot

    August 5, 2008 at 09:54

    It makes sense: Release it in the west where the Xbox install base is high and not in Japan where 2 people own a Xbox.

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