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Tue 21/05/02 at 19:26
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taken from ign...

Beyond the multiple bomb drops of game announcements, the Xbox braintrust pointed to past successes of Xbox as well as financial plans for the future in their effort to reaffirm the strength of the company and the platform The first European sales figures from Microsoft were announced with the company claiming 500,000 units sold in that territory along with an 88% attach rate for the all-powerful Halo. That's 440,000 copies of Bungie's breakthrough first person shooter for those of you slow on the math. In fact, Halo was leading the pack of top selling Xbox games along with the four other titles that sold more than 500,000 copies. All tolled, the Xbox could boast more than 20 titles that have seen sales of 100,000 copies or more compared to the ten 100,000+ titles for the GameCube over the first five months of each system's US run.

there you go...

also on ign...there's a list of xbox games announced...
COUNTERSTRIKE IS COMING TO XBOX (as is halo 2 and many other cool games)
Wed 22/05/02 at 00:10
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From my calculations GameCube has sold about 1.5 Million more units than X-box worldwide.
Wed 22/05/02 at 00:00
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Ah, but Super Smash Brothers Melee has sold nearly the same amount of units worldwide as Xbox sales worldwide.

And the game hasnt even been released in Europe yet...
Tue 21/05/02 at 23:08
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WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> ===SONICRAV---wrote:
> Interesting to note that in America and Europe software:hardware has
> been EXTRAORDINARILY high
>
> Very interesting, considering the software available is pretty dire!
>
>
> I wonder what this is due to though? Considering the console in
> America is still $300
>
> $199 now, isn't it?

Yes, and with the GC down to $149 now, I believe.

That must go some way to explaining the software/hardware ratio.
Tue 21/05/02 at 22:49
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===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Interesting to note that in America and Europe software:hardware has
> been EXTRAORDINARILY high

Very interesting, considering the software available is pretty dire!


> I wonder what this is due to though? Considering the console in
> America is still $300

$199 now, isn't it?
Tue 21/05/02 at 22:08
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Interesting to note that in America and Europe software:hardware has been EXTRAORDINARILY high- really, really high that it's the biggest for any console evr in fact.

I wonder what this is due to though? Considering the console in America is still $300, meaning that you'd expect the $200 GC to have far more games sales?

Maybe Ninty really are getting too many kids to buy the console! ;)

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Tue 21/05/02 at 20:28
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try www.ign.com
Tue 21/05/02 at 20:11
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Whats the ign website?
Tue 21/05/02 at 19:26
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taken from ign...

Beyond the multiple bomb drops of game announcements, the Xbox braintrust pointed to past successes of Xbox as well as financial plans for the future in their effort to reaffirm the strength of the company and the platform The first European sales figures from Microsoft were announced with the company claiming 500,000 units sold in that territory along with an 88% attach rate for the all-powerful Halo. That's 440,000 copies of Bungie's breakthrough first person shooter for those of you slow on the math. In fact, Halo was leading the pack of top selling Xbox games along with the four other titles that sold more than 500,000 copies. All tolled, the Xbox could boast more than 20 titles that have seen sales of 100,000 copies or more compared to the ten 100,000+ titles for the GameCube over the first five months of each system's US run.

there you go...

also on ign...there's a list of xbox games announced...
COUNTERSTRIKE IS COMING TO XBOX (as is halo 2 and many other cool games)

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