Virgin sold 550+ Xboxen on launch night
Up and down the land, that's probably several whales' worth of console
Mad.co.uk, some sort of new media shrine, is reporting that Xbox sales "outran Sony PlayStation 2's first monthly sales in one night". Before anybody goes getting excited though, the article refers to figures from Virgin's Glasgow Megastore only, and not its London (Oxford Street), Birmingham or Manchester stores, which also opened at midnight to accommodate fans. According to the article, HMV sales were also "meeting expectations", but no greater detail was entered into. The article did include rough figures for each of the main Virgin Megastores, however. Virgin allegedly sold more than 100 Xbox consoles at each of its stores, and topped 250 during launch night in Oxford Street. Conservatively then, we're looking at 550+ units between the four Megastores. With a further 70 consoles selling before lunch in London. Microsoft has yet to release opening day or weekend sales figures concerning the European launch, but we're expecting to hear from them any day now. Indeed, it's unusual to go more than a couple of days without having to finger some sort of pulse at Redmond... Related Feature - Ch€ap Xboxes in Germany!