Pariah’s Guild

Do you remember the number of units the original X-Box sold? Microsoft’s hefty console sold 25 million units at the end of its console cycle (2001-2006).Well, it looks like the X-Box 360 is going to surpass the number of units the original X-Box sold by the end of this November.

Mindy Mount, corporate VP and CFO of the company’s Entertainment and Devices division, said that this is “still only a start,” with the Xbox 360 as a “big driver” of growth in the interactive entertainment business.She later on said that “[i]t’s a great milestone for us, but still only a start when you consider that history shows three-quarters of a console’s sales come at a price of USD 199 or lower. We hit that sweet spot in September, making our Arcade model USD 50 cheaper than the Wii and half the price of a PlayStation 3.”

So congrats X-Box 360…even though you still have a 33% failure rate.