Game console Xbox 360 has sold 80 million copies

Xbox 360 Home Gaming Console has become an incredibly popular product for Microsoft. So popular that a total of Redmond company was able to sell 80 million copies.

A little help. The console release in the USA and Canada took place on November 22, 2005, a month later the prefix appeared on sale in the markets of Europe and Japan. In 2010, Microsoft released the Kinect camera sensor for the Xbox 360, which ultimately helped the company sell even more copies of the console. During its history, the Xbox 360 experienced two redesigns, one of which was introduced during the announcement of the new Xbox One console.

But now, even despite its popularity, the Xbox 360 last month gave way to the best-selling console to its main rival, the PlayStation 3 from Sony. At least in the USA. This is reported by Liam Callahan, an analyst at NPD, indicating that for the first time in the last 32 months, PS3 overtook a competing product from Microsoft in sales. One of the reasons Sony managed to overtake sales of the Xbox 360 at the last moment (before the release of the game consoles of the new generation), the analyst considers the PS3 set of games and the Grand Theft Auto 5 game from Rockstar. The kit attracted those who wanted to play this gaming title, but did not have a home gaming console for this release.

In addition, in fairness it is worth noting that the figure of 80 million Xbox 360 sold is actually not so transparent. The fact is that these figures are not based on the actual sales of consoles to suffering buyers, but on the number of consoles sold to stores. How many stores actually sold consoles at this point, while no one knows for sure. Or knows, but does not want to report.

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