San Francisco - Microsoft successfully sell as much 28 million units of game consoles own devices, until the end of 2008 yesterday.Sales of Microsoft Xbox 360 owned almost approaching the number of units of PlayStation 3 game console is successfully sold by Sony Corp.. Figures 28 million units of ditorehkan Microsoft is the result of the global sales in the world.
"Although the global economic crisis in this year, we can not deny that this year is the year that is bright as long as the history of Xbox," said Director of Product Management Microsoft Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg, as quoted by Reuters, on Tuesday (6/1/2009) .
This year is not only considered bright by Xbox only. Video game industry as a whole felt the same. According to research by NPD, video game sales in the year 2008 has increased by as much 10 percent and a revenue overall worth USD2, 91 billion in November to yesterday. This figure shows that consumers still want to spend the rest of the income to spend a video game even though the crisis.
Even online consumers who visit the Microsoft Xbox Live service has been increased to 84 percent with the number of members who are also increased to more than 17 million until the end of 2008. Overall, the Xbox online consumers have to spend as much USD1 billion since the service was launched in 2005.
According to Greenberg, this step does not succeed despite the trimming Xbox price to USD199, made in the year ago. Trimming this has made the Xbox price USD50 cheaper than Nintendo Wii.
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