Xbox 360 nears 25m global sales mark The Xbox 360’s global installed base will have overtaken that of its predecessor by the end of the month, a Microsoft executive has forecast. Mindy Mount, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, said in New York last week that the total number of Xbox 360s in use globally will reach 25m …
Is how many of those 25m are replacements for failed units? I have had 3 failied Xbox360's. 1 of them replaced by Microsoft, but 2 of them swapped by the retailer, as they failed very early on in their life. When the retailer replaced them, they went through the till as a new sale.
I bet there are only about 20m ACTIVE Xbox360's out there....
I would be very easy for Microsoft to ignore failed units. If retailers sell 4 units, 1 of which is a replacement, it's pretty easy for Microsoft to just NOT bother marking the numbers back down.
I wasn't suggesting that the retailers were sitting on them, they surely send them back to Microsoft, but knowing how dishonest Microsoft are, I suspect they don't bother marking the sold numbers back, based on failures.
They can't count a replacement as a sale.... the corresponding refurb and resale would count though, but legitimately so.
They do now offer a fixed price replacement too, if yours breaks they send you a refurb one out with new warranty and on you go, good solution for units out of warranty!
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