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Microsoft got off to a shaky start in Japan with the original Xbox, but have begun to make great strides in establishing itself with the Xbox 360. And while it may have a way to go yet, there is confidence that it will continue to grow in the Japanese gaming market, including the confidence of S...

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Tops the 25 million mark in three years Microsoft has announced that sales of its Xbox 360 console have beaten the total sales of the original Xbox, just days after the 360 celebrated its third birthday on 22 November. ... Read 360 outsells original Xbox worldwide on Pocket-lint now

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Tops the 25 million mark in three years Microsoft has announced that sales of its Xbox 360 console have beaten the total sales of the original Xbox, just days after the 360 celebrated its third birthday on November 22nd. ... Read 360 outsells original Xbox worldwide on Pocket-lint now

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Just as they called it, so it came to pass: The Xbox 360 has surpassed its predecessor's 25-million strong install base, and with five days left to spare."We've already surpassed the installed base of the original Xbox – which is a really significant milestone. We've been blown away by the a...

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By anton@xbitlabs.com (Anton Shilov) Microsoft Claims Life-to-Date Sales of Xbox 360 to Be Over 24 Million

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Over the course of five years, Microsoft's original Xbox video game console sold some 25 million units. Earlier this year, the company forecast that sales of its current Xbox 360 offering would surpass the 25 million mark by the end of November, 2008, and the CFO of Microsoft's entertainm...

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By Lee Bradley Microsoft has confirmed (via MCV) that the Xbox 360 has sold more units in its first 3 years of business than the original Xbox did during its life. According to the report, 25 million big-fat-black Xboxs were shipped between Nov 2001 and May 2005. That means the sleeker, sexier 360 is a full y...

The original Xbox was said to have sold a respectable 25 million units, before Microsoft abandoned the console in favour of their new baby. Three years later, their new baby, the Xbox 360, has not only reached that total but outstripped it, and will continue to improve upon that number as Mi...

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By Dustin Burg We've already surpassed the installed base of the original Xbox " said VP of interactive entertainment Chris Lewis, informing MCV that the 25 million milestone has been reached in November, just as was forecasted. Of which 7 million of those consoles live in European homes. We just want ev...

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By Randy Nelson Two days after the third anniversary of its launch, Microsoft has confirmed with MCV that Xbox 360 has sold more units to date worldwide than the original Xbox did during its entire lifecycle. Although MS did not disclose exact numbers, the 360's predecessor sold through 25 million units...

And Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox 360 has eclipsed the original Xbox in sales. While he didn't specify the exact number of Xbox 360s sold worldwide, as of the end of September, here Nintendo has sold 34.55 million units of their Wii hardware, and Sony has sold 16.84 million units of the...

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By Jack Schofield I just noticed a story in GamesIndustry.biz that starts: "Microsoft has announced that it expects sales of the Xbox 360 worldwide to pass that of the original Xbox -- around 25 million units -- by the end of November." Nintendo Wii - 803,000 Xbox 360 - 371,000 Sony PlayStation 3 - 190,000

By XanTium At the turn of the century, Microsoft and Bill Gates realized that the company really, really wanted a piece of the video game market. Gates built buzz for the Xbox for over a year before unveiling the console at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2001. By the holiday shoppi...

By drdanick Game installation is very similar to the game installation feature in the PlayStation 3. When you insert any Xbox 360 game (not original Xbox game, mind you), flip over to the "My Xbox" channel, hit the 'Y' button on the game Channel item, and select "Install to Hard Drive", the game itself w...

By Starlight Backwards-compatibility of course means that a game from the previous generation of systems works on the new systems. An example of this is PlayStation games working on PlayStation 2, or original Xbox games being playable on the Xbox 360 through emulation and software updates.

By takavach Unlike the original Xbox 360 Core model, the Xbox 360 Arcade now ships with a wireless controller, as it should (no tangled wires here). And the Arcade bundle also includes five Xbox Live Arcade games pressed to a single disc, the best of which is Pac-Man Championship Edition.

By Mark Wilson But green wasn't always intended to be this sort of go-to color for the Xbox. Originally it was blue, as seen in this logo from a pre launch Xbox shirt. Crazy, isn't it? But Microsoft choosing between blue and green is cliché to their track record that it's almost funny. You don't know what I mean...

The backwards compatibility list has been updated to over 300 original Xbox games that you can play on your Xbox 360. We have the full list of new additions included by way of this latest update, which is now available over Xbox Live, inside.

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Microsoft has released its latest backward compatibility patch bringing more original Xbox games up to date for play on the Xbox 360, with titles like Panzer Dragoon Orta, Jet Set Radio Future now playable. The new patches are the first to arrive since December of 2006, when highly antici...

A new weblog post from Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb has announced a major backwards compatibility update now available over Xbox Live. This free update brings the complete list of original Xbox games that you can play on your Xbox 360 to almost 300, and adds a number of notable titles to the cat...

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