Microsoft: Nearly 10 Million Xbox One Consoles Shipped Worldwide - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 November 2014 / 14,862 ViewsXbox Corporate Vice President of Marketing Yusuf Mehdi has announced that Microsoft will have shipped 10 million Xbox One consoles shortly. He stated the growth in sales is due to the $349 price point in the US and exclusives such as Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Sunset Overdrive.
"The response to this wave of blockbuster game releases and new bundles has been amazing, and sales have skyrocketed since the new price took effect on Nov. 2. Compared to the previous week, Xbox One sales in the US have more than tripled, which is exciting as more and more friends will be playing together this holiday," said Mehdi.
"As we head into the busy holiday season Xbox One led generation 8 console sales in the US for the past two weeks. Shortly, we will have sold in to retailers more than 10 million Xbox One consoles."
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Ok the title of this article is just a tad bit misleading don't you think? "Shortly" is awefully subjective a term especially during November and December where millions of units will be shipped by all three companies. So is shortly Nov 31? Dec?
How many Wiiu's and PS4's have been shipped?
Change the title. In real journalism that title would be unethical.
Gaming journalism is NOT remotely close to real journalism. Don't even bother making the comparison.
"Shortly"
No, it hasn't shipped 10M consoles. That will probably happen during Black Friday.
Perhaps Sony should announced that they will shortly ship 20m consoles.
Well if MS can have 10 million sold after the holiday, that would be very impressive.
Lol, and this is exactly what MS was hoping for, new articles to be written just using the 10M figure in the title. Poor form, VGC. Poor form.
Perhaps Sony should announced that they will shortly ship 20m consoles.
What happened to the sold through numbers? First MS started speaking only about shipped consoles and now they even make announcements about the numbers of consoles that will be eventually shipping one day?
So if MS is close to 10 million shipped (say 9 million to be conservative, where is VGChartz getting its 6.3 million? There's certainly not 3 million XBox One sitting inventory somewhere. Inventory costs stores a great deal of money, warehousing, shipping, taxes, and personnel. Just In Time inventory was started by Walmart years ago and is the norm. So how come this huge disconnect of this site's front page?
vghcartz probably has the xbone undertracked. stores will not keep buying xbox one consoles if there are around 4 million sitting on shelves.
VGChartz definitely has the XBone undetracked, but maybe by 600K at best. People forget that MS is notorious for choking the living shit out of retailers by shipping boatloads of consoles during the holidays. Seeing as they are in such a desperate position atm, they probably really put the pedal to the metal this holiday. I would not be shocked if there are at least a couple million XBones just floating around retail.
If M$ almost ship 10M units, maybe Sony shipped already 15M units.
lol at MS for not having the patients to wait until 10 million have been shipped to announce.
trippled their numbers and led US for two weeks... quite good.
I wonder how it's tracking in comparison to the xbox 360. I believe it's out performing the last gen so far.
Microshortly™.
The tittle needs to be fixed.
The 10m shipment figure will include the holiday season build up for Black Friday and beyond. It is therefore meaningless as a comparison to PS4 shipment figures that we got from Sony to the end of September.
So if MS is close to 10 million shipped (say 9 million to be conservative, where is VGChartz getting its 6.3 million? There's certainly not 3 million XBox One sitting inventory somewhere. Inventory costs stores a great deal of money, warehousing, shipping, taxes, and personnel. Just In Time inventory was started by Walmart years ago and is the norm. So how come this huge disconnect of this site's front page?
They plan to ship a total of 10M units soon, worlwide.
Probably, they will ship a lot of units for the black friday at the end of the month.
Not yet 10 million shipped but soon TM...
Still behind the ps4 in terms of shipped consoles....but still that's pretty good progress in comparison to the xbox 360.
Mans peoplez iz dum.