Microsoft claim a Christmas-cracking result
Sales soar 120 per cent, says Lewis
Speaking with MCV, European Xbox chief Chris Lewis has told us that Xbox 360 sales rocketed at the tail-end of the Christmas period, shooting up 120 per cent.
"Christmas 2008 was the biggest sales period in the history of the Xbox brand," the executive beamed.
"Sales of the console were more than double over the period a year before, in excess of 120 per cent in fact. We’ve had record sales in January too - much better than we anticipated. We're at over 8 million console sales to end of 2008."
Lewis assured that Microsoft won't now be sitting back, either, the big cheese telling us we can expect further big investments in Xbox going forward, with the UK still a focus.
"The UK remains one of our strongest markets. We've now been consistently ahead of our competition in terms of Sony for a long and sustained period, and we're going to keep it that way."
