Been thinking about what MS shipments of XB1 will be this Q.

We know it did 910k in the US for November, and that the market has seemingly been flooded with XB1's. UK did 150k first week, 20k following week(Chart track) to make a total of 170k in the UK for November. We know it did 365k for the year end as we just got an update, which is another 195k. So Dec was higher than Nov by 15%~.

If this same trend happened in the US, given they're so similar, then that works out at 1,045m in the US for Dec.

It might not though and we could see lower sales of course. Until we get the data on the 16th we only have VGC estimates (don't even have all those yet.

Still it's a good bet that UK and US combined will be 2m+ (2m meaning a 725k Dec which would be a little disappointing.) or if it reached the top end of my US estimate that's 2.3m.

UK + US: 2m - 2.3m

Australia had the best ever launch, 66k in 3 days, if we use the UK's 150k first 3 days as a rule, that could mean around 150k for Australia for the year. Again though it might have fallen short or not enough stock? Do we have an aussies here to give an assessment on that? 150k seems quite high, it's a safe bet it's over 100k for Aus tho if it did 66k in 3 days!

France we have at 105k with 2 weeks of data to come, Germany at 135k again, 2 weeks of data to come.

Rest of NA, Canada and Mexico is usually around 10% of US, so 150k - 200k combined.

Brazil is a strong country for MS, I have no idea how to estimate it though.

Austria, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy and Spain are difficult too, 50k each?

Edit - PS4 outselling XB1 3.5:1 in Spain early December, total PS4 sales at 80k, so that puts XB1 around 23k. Probably didn't do anymore than 30k for the year. That's quite low. Imagine Italy and Austria are similar, maybe 100k combined.

All rests on US to see whether it has sold through more than 3m, which could mean 3.5m+ shipments. I'm hoping for 4 but not sure how outlandish that is.

Does anyone have any other data?

I heard Thuway was a reliable source, so why not tweet him?

Well, rumor has it that we'll see a 10% performance boost on the Xbox One from the upcoming drivers. I'm hoping that if that happens, most developers will release a patch for their games to implement some additional features to take advantage of that additional 10% power. Battlefield 4, AC IV, and Forza 5 are the top culprits for aliasing issues, I'd love it if the developers patched in some anti-aliasing.

It came from 2 seperate supposed industry insiders, one of which is Thuway, who is a shaky source at best, but the article I read about the other source (who remained anonymous) said that the source has accurately predicted several things in the past, such as the launch resolutions for several Xbox One and PS4 games, as well as the PS4 patches to up the resolution on ACIV and CoD: Ghosts. Unfortunately neither source clarified how the 10% boost would be implemented, I'm assuming that the drivers either decrease the resources used by the Xbox One OS by 10% freeing up those resources for games, or that it's a 10% overclock for either the GPU, the CPU, or both (and I guess possibly the DDR3 memory as well). Both sources suggested that those drivers will be coming in the next few weeks, so I guess we'll find out soon enough. 

Yep, The only thing it's missing is campaign and most people who buy games like BF and Cod don't bother at all with campaign and buy the game just for the multiplayer, It has a story as part off the mutiplayer as well but tbh I really want to see a list of maps, I will be really dissapointed if there aren't many =/

I should add that I also only buy battlefield for the multiplayer, I get the campaign achievements but honestly idc about the story or campaign much and Imo Titanfall multiplayer looks much better than Cods and Battlefields, I have still got to play it though to see if it plays better