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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
Just out of curiosity, what are the sources for that million a month claim? That seems pretty high. Game consoles only sell around 250k per month.
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Amazon itself, Nov-Dec 2011, as part of their brags over the Fire launch.
Those were peak numbers.
(The rumor mill out of Taiwan had them pegged at 8-10 million for the year. Projections for 2012 had them at 14M. But that was before B&N's issues hit the news...)
Oh, and consoles do much more than 250k a month. That has been the XBOX 360 floor. They are as seasonal as the walled garden ereaders, peaking at 1.5-2.4M in december for the US alone. With a similar amount for the rest of the (non-Japan) world. Sony and Nintendo are similarly seasonal. Even the lemony fresh Wii U showed a noticeable spike in dec sales.
XMAS 2011 was a real good for consumer electronics. Here's the console numbers:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ales-analysts/
2012 wasn't bad, either:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/10/de...nth-at-retail/
2013, being a launch year, was weird, though.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/...es-in-december
Edit: Huh, I misremembered. AMAZON was bragging of a million Kindles a *week* for three weeks.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/15/tech..._kindle_sales/
As I said, 2011 was a vintage year.