News: 2010 the biggest year in Xbox history
“It’s official,” cheers Microsoft. Five years after the 360 arrived, Microsoft has crowned 2010 as the biggest year in Xbox history. Milestones reached: 50 million worldwide Xbox 360 sales, 30 million Xbox Live users, eight million Kinect sensors sold. “The debut of Kinect and smash-hit games like Fable III and Halo: Reach drove Xbox to the biggest year in its history in 2010,” the company …
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Microsoft: Supply Constraints Hit Xbox 360 In December
Although Microsoft has seen strong sales of its Xbox 360 in recent months, surging over the holidays on the back of Kinect’s launch, the company doesn’t expect to lead hardware sales when December’s NPD results come out later today — and it blames supply constraints. Xbox Live program manager Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb said on Twitter that Microsoft “ran out of consoles” at the end of December …
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