China Approves Sale of 5 Million Xbox One Units - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 August 2014 / 9,499 ViewsMicrosoft’s Xbox One Chinese partner BesTV revealed that China has approved the sale of five million Xbox One units. The figure shows they are not severely limiting the number of consoles that will be made available despite the censorship on violent video games.
The Xbox One launched in North America and some countries in Europe last November. Microsoft announced April they had shipped five million Xbox One units. No updated figure has been given since than.
Microsoft and BesTV are working together to bring retailers aboard in selling the console, as well as local developers to create games. BesTV believes the Xbox One will bring in big profits over its lifetime. The gaming industry has stated there is the potential to sell more than 50 million consoles in the next five years in China.
The Xbox One will hit store shelves on September 23 in China with a retail price of 3,699 yuan ($600). This is $200 more than in the US. However, despite the price retailers and experts believe the console will sell well.
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By the way, this doesn't mean that China has purchased 5 million units. It means China will ALLOW up to 5 million units to be sold if Microsoft is able to even reach that mark.
No sh!t, Sherlock
iQue (Gamecube) sold about 1 million units in China (5% of overall sales). If XB1 matches that and sells 60 million lifetime, that means as much as 3 million could sell in China. 5 million.....is a stretch.
I still think China is a bit of a wild card, but I have my doubts that there would be that many people who would buy an XBO at $600, even with a population of 1 billion.
50 million in 5 years in China is not much more believable than 1Billion globally for the whole generation. The populations of the countries where consoles are already selling is well over 1Billion and no way is xb one selling 50 million in 5 years in established markets. 15 million in 5 years maybe.
It says 50 million consoles, not just XB Ones.
Should say "up to"
Good, they won't sell more than 500k anyway.
lol XD
It'll only take them 20 years to sell that many there, imo. I do wish them luck though.
Holy crap!way to go xbox
Sony doomed I hope ps4 doesn't get approved for China
LOL They already did! Nice try though.
Not everybody in China is poor and their economy is growing.
Great job showing your ignorance on this subject.