wraggster
October 21st, 2012, 23:04
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Since its launch way back in 2005, the Xbox 360 has been purchased a grand total of 70 million times, according to IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/20/70-million-xbox-360s-have-been-sold?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ign%2Farticles+%28IGN+All+Art icles%29). This figure is up by nearly three million units since last April, when the global total rung up at 67.2 million (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-19-global-xbox-360-sales-down-nearly-50-percent-year-on-year).
Conceptualizing that many Xboxes is kind of hard to do, so let's put that figure into a ridiculous, arbitrary context. An olympic-sized swimming pool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool), for instance, holds about 424,935 Xboxes, assuming a pool volume of 88,528 cubic feet and Non-S model 360s. In order to hold all the Xboxes sold in the world so far, it would require 165 olympic-sized swimming pools, with that 165th pool having a tiny little bit of space left over for some controllers and a copy ofCondemned: Criminal Origins.
To put it another way, if every Xbox sold in the world were put on one side of a giant scale, 2,156 blue whales would need to be placed on the other side for it to balance properly, assuming a median weight of 250,000 pounds per whale (http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/cetaceans/blue-whale.html). That's kind of a lot of Xboxes, you guys.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/20/report-70-million-xbox-360s-sold-to-date/
Since its launch way back in 2005, the Xbox 360 has been purchased a grand total of 70 million times, according to IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/20/70-million-xbox-360s-have-been-sold?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ign%2Farticles+%28IGN+All+Art icles%29). This figure is up by nearly three million units since last April, when the global total rung up at 67.2 million (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-19-global-xbox-360-sales-down-nearly-50-percent-year-on-year).
Conceptualizing that many Xboxes is kind of hard to do, so let's put that figure into a ridiculous, arbitrary context. An olympic-sized swimming pool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool), for instance, holds about 424,935 Xboxes, assuming a pool volume of 88,528 cubic feet and Non-S model 360s. In order to hold all the Xboxes sold in the world so far, it would require 165 olympic-sized swimming pools, with that 165th pool having a tiny little bit of space left over for some controllers and a copy ofCondemned: Criminal Origins.
To put it another way, if every Xbox sold in the world were put on one side of a giant scale, 2,156 blue whales would need to be placed on the other side for it to balance properly, assuming a median weight of 250,000 pounds per whale (http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/cetaceans/blue-whale.html). That's kind of a lot of Xboxes, you guys.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/20/report-70-million-xbox-360s-sold-to-date/