Xbox 360 passes 10 million consoles in Europe

by Richard Mitchell on Nov 12th 2009 6:33PM

Microsoft today announced that it has sold in excess of 10 million Xbox 360 consoles throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The company then touts Aaron Greenberg's favorite chestnut, noting that the Xbox 360 is the only console that has managed to achieve sales growth in 2009. The press release quotes Martin Olausson of Strategy Analytics, who states his belief that Xbox Live is "12 to 18 months" ahead of PSN in regard to delivering "content beyond traditional games."

Microsoft also cites an internal study, which found that 60 percent of Xbox 360 consoles are now housed in a "family living room." Furthermore, the study found that women now account for 35 percent of Xbox owners, and that 64 percent of Xbox owners are over the age of 25.

If that's true, we're guessing that the majority of Xbox Live headset owners make up the remaining 36 percent.

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Reader Comments (54)

You know, I hardly ever talk to anyone on LIVE or PSN. If I play online it's normally with a friend and we private chat. I have noticed that the GTA 4 LIVE community is pretty cool. You get the occasional glitchers and the morons that shoot you with pistols instead of doing something cool, but overall it's a fun group.

"Xbox Live is "12 to 18 months" ahead of PSN in regard to delivering "content beyond traditional games."

Oh, good.. because that's what I want on my gaming system. Stuff that isn't games.

Funny he didn't say anything about actual games, of which the PSN provides the superior content.

I don't know, man. Shadow Complex is pretty damn good and so is 'Splosion Man. Are Portal and Braid on PSN yet?

They both have good games, okay!

XBLA: Shadow Complex, Geometry Wars, Hexic
PSN: Fat Princess, Flower, etc.

Stop being a fanboy.

My work is done.

WRE

Apparantly the (') in your name is causing reply issues. Get rid of it, please?

Darth,
What do you mean? I'd hate to be a grammatically-incorrect personal shopper. Doesn't the ATDF deserve better than that?

They do, but someone said any of those marks are messing with the Javascript reply system.

I can't confirm that, but I sure can't reply to your posts.

Okay, I see. Fixed it.

No XBLA discussion is complete without mentioning Castle Crashers.

There, discussion complete.

Darth Bradwart

I see you have mentioned more exclusive XBLA games then PSN games by 1, that makes you a fanboy, haha

Where do people come up with this stuff, what happened to plain old having fun gaming?

Castle crashers is coming to PSN sometime next year

no, not exactly how it works.

Developers make games, and having more consoles wont make games magically better.

but i got what you were trying to say.

Funny...the PS3 was over 10 million in August...

I would think with the massive sales boost from the Slim, Sony is also experiencing growth.

It's nice that Microsoft is selling consoles, but Greenberg is a douche.

*raises glass*

Cheers everyone!

about god damn time!!!

Congrats to Microsoft. They are definably not as experienced as the competition, but its nice to hear they are doing well.

lol...you guys are so cute!!

Wonder how many of the purchases are from people buying a 2nd or 3rd one because it went out or got banned.

Mine has been good for 2 years.

I've been proud of my little '06 box. He's only red-ringed once!

I got my Elite in 2007 had it hasn't had any problems yet.

Really? People are still doing the whole, "I WONDER HOW MANY ARE FROMX NUMBER OF PEOPLE REBUYING THEIR CONSOLE?" Jeez, I thought that was done with.

Well, 10 million consoles shipped could mean that up to 5 million people had their 'box red ring...I know mine did...

Oh man...

Sony starts selling a few million more consoles than Microsoft because of the price cut and the fanboys start talking shit.

Can we just be happy that MS and Sony are doing well?

Yay for 2 year old RRoD jokes!!!

It's still relevant now. If it's not the Red Ring, it's E74.

Sorry man.

To be fair, Captain...we were telling three year old Sony jokes yesterday.

And I loved every damn minute of it.

That's true. Riiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer!!!!! never gets old.

Ummmm...the PS3 hasn't hit 30 million units sold yet buddy.

I like my PS3...but even I know it was practically broken out the door as well. It's only been since 2008 that it was relevant.

And no, it hasn't broken the 30 million mark yet.

@tsfdf
I understand that you're a troll correct? Do they even have regular schools? Or, just schools that teach you how to be an absolute asshole. GTFO, and stop bashing America just because we invented the hamburger.

the PS3 was over 10 million in August... AND XBOX was launched 1 year _before_ ps3...

Thanks Captain Obvious!! We would have NEVER known that if it weren't for YOU!

weren't they just bragging a few months ago of how they were 1 million units ahead

Yeah, I like how he stereotypes Americans as 'not so smart'.

And then can't even do simple research.

Who is the dumb one, I ask?

@tsfdf

I'm European you idiot.

And I already knew that Sony was doing better than MS in Europe before the price cut.

What I'm talking about is how fanboys think that because Sony started selling a few million consoles more than MS because of the price cut they think the competition with MS is over.

Now more than ever the competition between MS and Sony is very close and its good to see that they're both selling consoles.

Because people over 25 are always calm and respectful?

"...'12 to 18 months' ahead of PSN..."

That's supposed to mean something when the Xbox 360 did indeed launch 12 months ahead of the PS3?

Logically, then, that means Live isn't that far ahead...

spinspinspinspin

At this rate, Live will always be ahead of PSN because all Sony does is try to mimic and play catch up with the features that Live introduces, instead of coming up with great stuff the other doesn't have yet.

The only thing they tried to do on their own was Home and....yeah, back to the drawing board there.

I am over 25 (actually just over 30, ugh), and I almost never talk on the mic. In COD I usually just mute everyone so I don't have to listen to the banter. If I could actually find a group of gamers who communicate about what they are doing, where the enemy is, and which way they are going to flank the enemy, I would be thrilled. Either it's constant singing and shit talking, or everyone is quiet during the round, and then everyone sings, farts and/or talks smack in the lobby.

I tried to do that...but now I don't even bother to turn on my headset anymore. People don't want to play the game, they just want to babble.

I only use mic when gaming with mates, otherwise it is off, which is why the argument of whether it is required or not kind of fails in my opinion. I don't make use of it in every game, it just comes in handy from time to time, but I wouldn't say it was the be all and end all of my gaming habits.

Where are all these scorpions coming from tonight? Mind your step intelligent people, fanboy scorpions may sting you, you've wouldn't want to get that nasty venom in your system, I can tell ya that.

"who states his belief that Xbox Live is "12 to 18 months" ahead of PSN in regard to delivering "content beyond traditional games."

Can someone translate this for me? I honestly don't get it. Are they talking about Netflix? Facebook and Twitter? I'm so confused.

It's marketing bullshit. You can't translate it perfectly, but I'd guess Greenberg is smarting over the loss of Netflix exclusivity.

It's a banging console, one I have just picked up myself. Congrats Microsoft.

We're the ATDF. We don't fear pain.

Its not the pain you should be worried about :D Its the nasty after-effects

i sorta miss the days of xbox 1, they were trying so hard to make their way into the industry, they were always trying all sots of things. Now they're back to the same pompous executive shit all the other sectors of microsoft's did

meh, i dont care.
all i care for is the content not how many other people decided to buy a white box over a black box.

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