I still remember Bill Gates stultifying speech at E3 earlier this year. The man is super smart, but that is weighed down by being super boring. The only thing that really woke me up during his speech was when he said the Xbox 360 was going to have a "10 million headstart" in the next-gen race.

Well according to their latest release, Microsoft just topped six million. Yikes, that's not even the seven to eight million I predicted in the face of their 10 million promise.

That means ten million Xbox 360s by mid-September or, as I like to say when I hit the casinos, they're gonna have to double down in less than three months. I'm thinking they can't even manufacture that many.

I'm thinking that the best they can hope to do is to hit seven to eight million if they're lucky and that's nothing to sneeze at.

So a six million head start, not quite as sexy. Brian Crecente

Microsoft says has sold 6 million Xbox 360s [Washington Post]

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