coreduos
14-04-2007, 03:36
La verita' sulle vendite dell Xbox 360
We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press releases. The game is, "Find the words that make the headline true." It's not always easy.
Let's start with XBox 360s. Last week, Microsoft said that it expects to sell more than 10 million XBox 360s by the end of 2006. Sounds plausible, right?
Well, sort of. Unfortunately, NPD just released their numbers for November. The outcome was pretty close to Blackfriars forecast last week:
Nintendo Wii: estimate: 600,000+, actual: 476,000
Microsoft XBox 360: Blackfriars estimate: 600,000, actual: 511,000
Sony Playstation 3: estimate: 200,000, actual: 197,000
Sounds pretty good, right? XBox 360 beat the Nintendo Wii in November with half a million units. They should be fine with the projection, right?
Well, not if you go back to Microsoft's earnings statements and notice that through September 30, Microsoft had only sold 5.9 million units according to its SEC filings. XBox 360 sales in Q3 were averaging 300,000 a month, so let's say October sales were 400,000. Adding on 511,000 for November, that brings us up to 6.8 million. Estimates are that Microsoft will sell about 1.5 to 2 million XBox 360s for Christmas. That leaves the total about a million units short of the 10 million goal.
Leggete attentamente aiutatevi con google translator o altavista.
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/04/microsoft_phili.html
We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press releases. The game is, "Find the words that make the headline true." It's not always easy.
Let's start with XBox 360s. Last week, Microsoft said that it expects to sell more than 10 million XBox 360s by the end of 2006. Sounds plausible, right?
Well, sort of. Unfortunately, NPD just released their numbers for November. The outcome was pretty close to Blackfriars forecast last week:
Nintendo Wii: estimate: 600,000+, actual: 476,000
Microsoft XBox 360: Blackfriars estimate: 600,000, actual: 511,000
Sony Playstation 3: estimate: 200,000, actual: 197,000
Sounds pretty good, right? XBox 360 beat the Nintendo Wii in November with half a million units. They should be fine with the projection, right?
Well, not if you go back to Microsoft's earnings statements and notice that through September 30, Microsoft had only sold 5.9 million units according to its SEC filings. XBox 360 sales in Q3 were averaging 300,000 a month, so let's say October sales were 400,000. Adding on 511,000 for November, that brings us up to 6.8 million. Estimates are that Microsoft will sell about 1.5 to 2 million XBox 360s for Christmas. That leaves the total about a million units short of the 10 million goal.
Leggete attentamente aiutatevi con google translator o altavista.
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/04/microsoft_phili.html