Xbox Continues Positive Growth
Date: Tuesday, December 14 @ 17:08:53 UTC
Topic: Xbox General


At his personal blog, Major Nelson (Xbox Live Director of Programming) revealed new information regarding Xbox sales figures. The statistics show the Xbox is the only console to continuously demonstrate positive market share growth on a year-over-year basis.

Here are the statistics:

- For the 13th consecutive month, Xbox grew its share of year-over-year monthly console sales -- climbing an additional 19 percent compared to last year -- and hitting a 41 percent share in November.


- Market share on a year-to-date basis for Xbox increased from 24 percent in 2003 to 37 percent in 2004. During the same time, PS2 share dropped from 51 percent to 45 percent.
- Xbox year-over-year console sales for November increased a staggering 61 percent, while PS2 decreased 17 percent.
- Xbox console sales year-to-date for 2004 jumped 48 percent from 2003, while sales for PS2 were down 18 percent.
- Microsoft Game Studios topped the console software charts as the number-one publisher in November, with an 18 percent share of unit sales and an impressive 25 percent share of revenue for the month.
- Overall Xbox year-over-year software unit sales increased 77 percent. During the same time period, PS2 software sales increased only 1 percent.
- Year-to-date software sales for Xbox have improved by 66 percent compared to 2003, tripling the industry’s overall software growth of 22 percent. Meanwhile, PS2 year-to-date software sales saw just an 8 percent increase over last year.
News-Source: http://teamxbox.com





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