Microsoft: 'Over half' of 360 owners didn't own Xbox 1 Options

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Microsoft: 'Over half' of 360 owners didn't own Xbox 1 Posted by XanTium | January 18 13:50 EST

From gamesindustry.biz: [QUOTE] Microsoft's Chris Satchell has revealed that "over half" of the people who have bought Xbox 360 since its November 2005 launch did not buy an Xbox 1. "We've sold 10.4 million, but the stat you may not have heard is that over half of those sales are from people that didn't own an Xbox 1," Satchell told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published today. However Satchell's comments are likely to be questioned in some quarters because Microsoft has already publicly admitted that the 10.4 million consoles sold haven't all been purchased by consumers. Speaking to GI.biz at CES, Xbox boss Peter Moore said that in the context of its own figures, "'Sold' means that we're a wholesaler of hardware and we sell it to a retailer, and that's the important criteria." [/QUOTE] Full Story: gamesindustry.biz

[LegendDJ]

They know this how.....?

[ThaJuggla]

Bill Gates had enough money to buy everyone psychic powers last year for Christmas.

[Pheidias]

Hmm I would have thought the fact that only 4 million of the owners of the now dead xbox1 has bought a 360, would be a bad thing not a good thing.

[kdeuce7]

Hmm I would have thought the fact that only 4 million of the owners of the now dead xbox1 has bought a 360, would be a bad thing not a good thing.

No I think it's a good thing because it means people who didn't have xbox's before are getting them now, and the people with xbox 1 will likely upgrade in the future when it is almost completely obsolete.

[shade88]

They know this how.....?

Dear God, it's called a statistically random survey. You get a certain amount of sample statistic and make an inference about a population parameter; and you do it in such a way that it is statistically valid.

I don't know if that's what they based this figure on, or if it's some guy speaking out of his ass. But if it's taken to be valid it's likely based on that.

Don't you wonder how they are usually fairly accurate on presidential election polls? They don't survey every American, they devise a statistically random poll that can be used to estimate a population parameter. And it works!

In fact, this applies for every (virtually) every field where it's impractical (or impossible) to survey every single aspect (i.e. Impractical to survey the ~10m people that bought Xbox360; Impractical to survey the ~300m Americans if they'll vote and who they'll vote for; Impractical to test every aspect of computer digital logic because that number would be at least 2^128 tests -- or simply put astronomical).

This post has been edited by shade88: Jan 18 2007, 09:13 PM

[sicknasty413]

Dear God, it's called a statistically random survey. You get a certain amount of sample statistic and make an inference about a population parameter; and you do it in such a way that it is statistically valid.

I don't know if that's what they based this figure on, or if it's some guy speaking out of his ass. But if it's taken to be valid it's likely based on that.

Don't you wonder how they are usually fairly accurate on presidential election polls? They don't survey every American, they devise a statistically random poll that can be used to estimate a population parameter. And it works!

In fact, this applies for every (virtually) every field where it's impractical (or impossible) to survey every single aspect (i.e. Impractical to survey the ~10m people that bought Xbox360; Impractical to survey the ~300m Americans if they'll vote and who they'll vote for; Impractical to test every aspect of computer digital logic because that number would be at least 2^128 tests -- or simply put astronomical).

...or they could have just said, "hey, we've sold x numbers of 360s. Which is more than double the amount of xboxes we've sold"

idk, it makes sense in my mind.

[DJsquare]

too bad for those people who didn't have the original xbox mod experience

[Tiuk]

Hope they're not relying on Live statistics to come up with that figure. A lot of people (like me) didn't have Live for the original xbox, but got it for the 360.

Also, I owned two original xboxes, but both were purchased second-hand.

[chuckthefuk]

Big Deal.. (some of the sales are from the modding community.. dvd/mobo/case) most 360 users are new to Xbox.. how many Parents bought their 6 year old - 14 year old a 360 this year... They have been launching 360 in almost every country within the last 6 months. How many people were sceptical about microsoft's "NEW" system when Xbox just came out.. I'll be honest.. I didn't buy my xbox.. i traded my Gamecube.. for it.. I had very little faith in Microsoft.. I did buy the 360 since Xbox 1 was a great piece of hardware to modify later on *cough* XBMC *cough* .. And we all know earlier generations of xbox's tend be the weakest (security wise) ... either way..

More people are now more open to Micrsoft taking on the gamer community....


Just my $0.02 although I am canadian so I am sure its worth much less.....

This post has been edited by chuckthefuk: Jan 19 2007, 02:18 AM

[vanxman]

I hope you all realise that 74.28% of all statistics are made up on the spot!!!

[hamwbone]

forgive me....

[sabbath_dude]

These stats sound almost correct to me. Out of the 6 people I know with a 360 only 2 of them had an xbox 1 and the rest had a ps2. I know thats only my experience but I think alot of ps2 owners are upgrading to the 360. This is very good news for M$.

[Knasen]

These stats sound almost correct to me. Out of the 6 people I know with a 360 only 2 of them had an xbox 1 and the rest had a ps2. I know thats only my experience but I think alot of ps2 owners are upgrading to the 360. This is very good news for M$.

Kind of same here.. I had a xbox1 myself and bought a 360 too. Two friends of mine have never had any console at all and they bought a 360 each recently. Also, one friend of mine who was a real Sony fanboy (he have had a ps2 a long time) have bought a 360 and have no plans on buying a ps3 later on. Looking good for M$ indeed.

This post has been edited by Knasen: Jan 19 2007, 05:07 PM

[Booker T]

More useless stats from microsoft.