{"id":5691,"date":"2009-05-28T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5691"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:00:47","slug":"xbox-360-surpasses-30m-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/xbox-360-surpasses-30m-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 Surpasses 30M Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8622\" alt=\"360 Gears Bundle-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/360-Gears-Bundle-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"364\" \/>MAY 28, 2009 \u2022 Microsoft Game Studios announced that the Xbox 360 had attained worldwide sales of 30 million units. That number places the console second behind the Nintendo Wii, which has sold more than 50 million units in a year less time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: At 30 million units the Xbox 360 has already surpassed lifetime sales of the original Xbox by 5 million.\u00a0The challenge now is to both maintain that existing user base, while continuing to grow the overall installed base.\u00a0Clearly there is pressure on Microsoft to come up with a long term profitable strategy for the Xbox 360 as both a game machine and an entertainment device.\u00a0With a solid lead on the PlayStation 3, we do not see Microsoft rushing to get a new game system out the door.\u00a0This means that for better or worse, the Xbox 360 is Microsoft&#8217;s play for the next few years.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 28, 2009 \u2022 Microsoft Game Studios announced that the Xbox 360 had attained worldwide sales of 30 million units. That number places the console second behind the Nintendo Wii, which has sold more than 50 million units in a year less time. Impact: At 30 million units the Xbox 360 has already surpassed lifetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}