Microsoft says Xbox holiday sales strong
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft's video game chief on Wednesday called the holiday season "very good" for the Xbox game player, but shied away from setting a launch date for the widely anticipated game, "Halo 2."
Bach claimed Microsoft's Xbox outsold Nintendo's GameCube in the last two weeks of December, despite GameCube's lower price, $99 versus Xbox's $179. Nintendo's move to a $99 price spurred a boom in GameCube sales that brought it closer to second-place Xbox in terms of U.S. installed base of users.
Bach, in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, declined to commit to a launch for highly touted "Halo 2." The original "Halo" is the Xbox's top seller, and most expectations have been for the new game to come out in early April or thereabouts.