Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Sales Down by Almost 50 Percent

Microsoft reminds me, in many cases, of a cheetah. They start off really fast, bursting with hope and success, but these qualities are short-lived.

While Microsoft has been steadily losing their consumer market over the past few years, today some rattling figures were announced… global Xbox360 hardware sales for the last quarter were down by a ghastly 48 percent.

48 percent – that is a lot.

These figures are relevant only to year-over-year comparisons, and as such, we have brought you one: from January 1^st to March 31^st of last year, the console sold 2.7 million units. This year, in the same time period, the console only sold 1.4 million.

This places the lifetime sales of the Xbox 360 at a solid 67.2 million globally. For a look into how this means Microsoft’s box is stacking up compared to its competitors, we look to Sony and Nintendo: the Playstation 3 sits at a respectable 62 million units sold as of December 31^st, 2011, while Nintendo’s Wii is still the dominant force at 95 million units sold since the same time.

EuroGamer