CES ‘08: Takahashi - Xbox 360’s 2007 the Biggest Year in VG History
- Scribbled on January 7th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in CES, Industry News, Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Xbox Live Marketplace
Dean Takahashi is reporting that a memo set from Mattick North American hardware that the Xbox 360’s 2007 is going to go down in records as the biggest year in video game history, ever.
He began by noting that for 2007 Xbox 360 appears “on track to register the biggest year in video game history. While final sales numbers are still being collected, consumers in North America have spent over $3.5 billion dollars on Xbox 360 hardware, software and accessories. That’s $1 billion more than consumers spent on the Wii, and $2 billion more than the PS3. When December data is added, we expect Xbox 360 in 2007 to have generated more calendar year revenue than any other gaming platform ever, including PS2 at its peak.”
Additional numbers:
“History has shown that the eventual winner of each console generation was the console that generated the most 3rd party revenue, and according to the most recent NPD data, Xbox 360 generated more 3rd party revenue in 2007 than Nintendo and Sony combined.“
Mattick couldn’t help but dig at the PS3 a little:
He also noted that of the top 20 best-selling titles in 2007 this generation, 13 were on Xbox 360, compared to seven on the Wii and zero on the PS3, according to NPD.
Halo 3, in particular, had some eye-opening numbers:
“Halo 3” sold 8.1 million units worldwide and logged over 1.5 billion multiplayer matches since launch – that’s an average of 14 million matches a day
That’s a lot of Halo.
(Thanks, GameDaily.)
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