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In first quarter, Microsoft ships 2M consoles — including 1.2M Xbox Ones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft said today that it shipped more than 2 million video game consoles in its third fiscal quarter ended March 31 — and 1.2 million of these were Xbox Ones.

Those numbers jibe with last week’s announcement that Microsoft has shipped to retailers about 5 million of its Xbox One consoles since launching the system last November. But the company didn’t say how many of these systems got bought.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.