{"id":245,"date":"2014-11-13T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2014-11-13T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:17:11","slug":"xbox-one-leads-console-sales-after-price-drop-10-million-units-shipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One Leads Console Sales After Price Drop, 10 Million Units Shipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox One has seen a huge turnaround in sales figures after the $50 holiday price drop on Nov. 2. <em>Xbox Wire<\/em> is reporting that sales have \u201cmore than tripled\u201d in that time frame, and it has altogether shipped a grand total of 10 million units to retailers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Along with these figures, Microsoft claims that the Xbox One sales pace is currently the fastest of the three eigth-generation consoles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Compared to the previous week, Xbox One sales in the US have more than tripled, which is exciting as more and more friends will be playing together this holiday. As we head into the busy holiday season Xbox One led generation 8 console sales in the US for the past two weeks.\u00a0 Shortly, we will have sold in to retailers more than 10 million Xbox One consoles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the $50 price drop to\u00a0$349.99, Microsoft also laid the success at the doorstep of its biggest blockbuster releases from the last few weeks: <a title=\"affiliate link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DB84XQK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00DB84XQK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=tbtextlink-20&amp;linkId=R76WIHJKJKPS5MAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sunset Overdrive<\/em><\/a> and <a title=\"affiliate link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KSQHX1K\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00KSQHX1K&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=tbtextlink-20&amp;linkId=LFNBODLTJ3IW7CFZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halo: The Master Chief Collection<\/em><\/a>. It also lauded\u00a0third-party bundles with huge games like\u00a0<em><a title=\"affiliate link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00J48MUS4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00J48MUS4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=tbtextlink-20&amp;linkId=MCE4MLMJNQVH7MGF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<a title=\"affiliate link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MU1YENG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00MU1YENG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=tbtextlink-20&amp;linkId=Z7ISS3D7BNDFJ6DT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have listened to your feedback and have\u00a0worked hard\u00a0to deliver hundreds of improvements to Xbox One, celebrated the launch of amazing new games, and sought ways to offer more value for you. \u00a0As we reach this milestone, I remain awestruck by your passion for games and your support of Xbox One. \u00a0Thank you for an incredible year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has always seemed like an uphill battle for Microsoft this generation with nothing but bad press following its reveal and its apparently limited powers next to the PlayStation 4\u00a0in the resolution and frames-per-second departments. Congratulations on turning the ship around heading into this generation\u2019s first full holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Can it keep up the pace and catch up with Sony before the holiday is out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox One has seen a huge turnaround in sales figures after the $50 holiday price drop on Nov. 2. Xbox Wire is reporting that sales have \u201cmore than tripled\u201d in that time frame, and it has altogether shipped a grand total of 10 million units to retailers worldwide. Along with these figures, Microsoft claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}