Microsoft: We'll Sell 15 million 360s by June '07

July 21st, 2006, 23:49 Posted By: wraggster

Microsoft has announced that it is aiming to have sold a total 15 million Xbox 360s by the end of its fiscal year 2007, ending June 30.

The company has already shifted five million units of the next-generation console, and expects to hit the 10 million target by the end of 2006.

Funny that. We're sure we remember Peter Moore telling us at E3 that the target was to reach the golden 10 million mark before the launch of the PlayStation 3 and Wii this coming November.

Seems they’ve just moved the goalposts back a little. However, if the company should achieve its new 10m goal before the end of the year, it certainly gives it a solid head start against the competition.

Moore, you may recall, has gone on record to outline that he feels consumers will buy an Xbox 360 as their next-gen console of choice, followed by Nintendo’s ‘new-gen’ Wii – which should work out around the same price as a PlayStation 3 (at least, at launch).

So far, Microsoft has sold 3.3 million 360s in the USA, 1.3 million in Europe and 400,000 in the rest of the world since its November 22 launch last year. SPOnG is not sure what the exact Japanese sales figures are to date though, other than they are execrable.

The unparalleled online service, Xbox Live, now has over three million members worldwide, with around 60 percent of all installed Xbox 360 consoles being connected to Xbox Live.

There has to date been over 18 million downloads from Xbox Live Marketplace and 5 million games downloaded from Xbox Live Arcade. By Christmas 2006, Microsoft expects to have 160 high-definition games available on Xbox Live.

Revenue at the company's Home and Entertainment division rose to US$1.14 billion during its fourth quarter, up 94 percent from $587 million during the same time last year. It also beat its $1.06 billion performance from the first three months of this year.

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