Mostly bad news for Xbox 360

Posted by admin on April 10th, 2008 at 06:21pm

Ack, i forgot to post this on the 5th. Oh well, here it is.

The Wii console sold more units in the year to March 2008 than both Xbox 360 and PS3 combined. Industry analyst Daniel Ernst of Hudson Square Research said the same pattern is likely to be repeated this year as well.

In Japan, sales of Xbox 360 are in freefall, most likely a reaction to the ongoing saga of the red ring of death, still running at 16%, despite all Microsoft’s reported efforts to fix it. In fact, the Xbox was ranked bottom of the list of all handheld and console products sold in the region.

Even though sales have been weak, they are likely to be hit further by a reported shortage of available units in the US, as reported in a previous post.

Perhaps Microsoft can console themselves with one bright spark: 50% of US console users who play games online use the Xbox 360, against 18% for Wii and 18% for PS2. But I guess they knew that already.

Under rrod+ xbox 360+ xbox gaming+ xbox live