{"id":278,"date":"2014-10-24T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:51:51","slug":"xbox-sales-jumped-102-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Sales Jumped 102% Last Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone wondering how much of a difference dropping the Kinect as a standard part of the Xbox One kit made, the results are in.<\/p>\n<p>Total sales were up 25% for the company, but Xbox console sales in particular increased 102 percent in the first quarter of Microsoft\u2019s financial year.<\/p>\n<p>2.4 million Xbox consoles were shipped to retailers as of September 30, helping the Device and Consumer division of which it is a part of increase revenue by 47 percent \u2013 $10.96 billion. The console launched in 30 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2014\/09\/xbox-one-welcoming-29-new-markets-to-xbox-one\">new markets<\/a>, including places like China and northern Europe, in addition to that crucial price drop, which is certain to have played a role as well.<\/p>\n<p>This holiday season, too, should prove interesting for Microsoft\u2019s console as it continues to play catch-up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">VIA<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2014-10-23-xbox-console-sales-jump-102-percent-in-q1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GAMESINDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone wondering how much of a difference dropping the Kinect as a standard part of the Xbox One kit made, the results are in. Total sales were up 25% for the company, but Xbox console sales in particular increased 102 percent in the first quarter of Microsoft\u2019s financial year. 2.4 million Xbox consoles were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[10,12],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-gaming","tag-financial","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\/278","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}