One Million Zunes (Somehow) Sold

Wow!! Talk about a big time shock over the weekend.

Microsoft somehow managed to sell one million Zunes. Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president of Entertainment and Devices, said that Microsoft had met its goal and that more Zune things will come later this year.

I could understand a smaller company getting excited about hitting this number, but Microsoft? Apple during their Q4 sold 14 million ipods, granted that was during the holiday season but it puts these numbers into comparison. Zune doesn't look so big anymore!!!

Microsoft, you've got a little more work ahead of you.

The Wii is really just a GameCube 1.5

We all know that the Wii is the least powerful of the 'next gen' games systems. But Microsoft's Robbie Bach tears it a new one, by calling it a glorified 'GameCube'.

Says Bach:
"…the video graphics on it aren’t very strong; the box itself is kind of underpowered; it doesn’t play DVDs; there are a lot of down-line components [that] aren’t actually that interesting. … They don’t have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had. So it makes sort of the comparison set a little bit difficult.”

Wow!!!! That's kinda harsh.
But he may have a point!

Newsweek’s Level Up went to technical experts to discover if what Bach was saying is true. In a nutshell, the Wii essentially is a GameCube with a new controller and improved memory clock speed.

Read the 'Level Up' article for a really, in-depth look at the guts of the Wii after the jump.