Gamrfeed says XBox has come first in sales after the New Year sales come to a conclusion. With over 50 million in sales worldwide, XBox sold twice as much as the Super Nintendo. See below:
With our figures for the Americas now in, and getting processed for upload, VGChartz can confirm that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is the fifth biggest home console of all time as of Christmas Day 2010. The X360 has topped 50 million units worldwide this week, putting it ahead of the Super Nintendo, the former fifth place home console. X360 sales are more than double the sales of the original Xbox. The original Xbox was Microsoft's first console and was the second place system of the PS2 era.
Microsoft's latest system launched in November 2005. Thus the average sales per year are just under 10 million units, as the system has topped 50 million in 61 months. Notable systems such as Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Xbox 1, Gamecube, Dreamcast, and many others all spent equal or far more time on the market and failed to reach the totals attained by X360.
To date, the X360 is behind only PS2, PS1, Wii, and NES on a worldwide basis. Sony's PS3, launched a year later, with sales of 46 million is not too far behind X360, but ultimately Microsoft has reached 50 million units before Sony this generation. With Kinect pushing X360 to record levels, the system is likely to move even further up the list of biggest userbases ever.
While X360 has yet to pass the top two home consoles from Sony and Nintendo on a worldwide basis, X360 is already the fourth biggest base in the West.
Overall, the X360 is doing quite well as the 50m mark is rarified air. The only question now is how much bigger the X360 can get.
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