edge-online.com - 1/6/2009
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Microsoft proclaimed Monday evening that Xbox 360 has sold 28 million units worldwide through 2008 since its launch in November 2005.
Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg told Edge in a phone interview that the company sold 10.3 million Xbox ...
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Microsoft expects PS3 price cut soon, while Reeves reiterates profit mantra
Joystiq [PlayStation] —
... This time, it's not an analyst that's predicting a PS3 price drop. It's the competition. Microsoft's outspoken Aaron Greenberg has been celebrating the tremendous success of Xbox 360, which currently leads PS3 by more than 8 million units worldwide. Obviously, ...
Microsoft: "We Expect the PlayStation 3 Price to Drop in the Next Couple of Months"
Kombo.com —
... the price of Sony's PlayStation 3 to drop, just about any day now. Sharing that mindset, Microsoft's Xbox 360 Product Manager Aaron Greenberg expects that such a drop is likely to come sooner rather than later, in spite of Sony's claims to the contrary. "We absolutely expect the PS3 price drop to happen in the next couple of months. We're frankly surprised it's taken this long. ... I would expect they'd have to move on price, sooner than later, for sure." -- Aaron Greenberg, to Edge Online In addition, Greenberg told Edge that 2008 has been the "biggest year ever in Xbox ...
MS predicts a Playstation 3 price cut 'soon'
Joystiq [Xbox] —
... With a 28 million Xbox 360 base and keeping a sales lead over the Playstation 3, Microsoft knows that the worldwide console price cuts they enacted in 2008 have been a key component to their strategy. Something that Sony has yet to do with PS3, which ...
Microsoft Expects PlayStation 3 Price Cut
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... "We absolutely expect the PS3 price drop to happen in the next couple of months," Greenberg said in an interview with Edge-online. "We're frankly surprised it's taken this long... I would expect they'd have to move on price, sooner than later, for sure." ...
Microsoft expects PS3 price drop 'in the next couple of months'
Joystiq —
... Now that the PS3 costs less to make, shouldn't Sony be passing on its savings to you? That's what Xbox 360 product manager, Aaron Greenberg, expects will happen via a price cut before summer.
Speaking to Edge Online, Greenberg said that, ...
Microsoft Dates PlayStation 3 Price Drop For Springtime [Aaron Greenberg]
Kotaku —
... following recent Microsoft sales boasting. "We're frankly surprised it's taken this long. I would expect they'd have to move on price, sooner than later, for sure." Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves disagrees. He says not to expect a price cut this Spring, sticking to the "value added" thing. With PlayStation 3s reportedly getting cheaper to make, we'd expect it sooner rather than later — "no plans" notwithstanding. MS: 360 Life-to-Date Sales Hit 28m [Edge Online]
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Xbox 360 sales top 28 million —
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Console now leading PS3 by eight million units, boasts Microsoft.
Xbox 360 sales have topped 28 million units worldwide following the console's most successful year, according to Microsoft. Click here to read the full article