The website this article came from reflects my view on the quality of the writing.

Its sensationalist article, but the X1 is doing very poorlyin europe and below expectations in the US. I'm not surprised that many US retailers are sitting on large ammounts of unsold stock by now. Microsoft did ship as many as they could during christmas and filled up those distribution channels.

Well, in America XOne is not so bad, but yes, In Europe and Rest of the World the situation is a bit desperate.

You do realize fool.com (known as Mötley Fool) is a legit website that many investors I know use for their portfolio management tools and read their articles.

i agree but some points were made that were decent points to make, the 100$ plus weaker hardware is a good point.  i see one problem with MS going Discless, where the incentive for Gamestop to push the hardware, i mean unless someone comes in to buy xbox live cards they wont make anything off the system besides accesories.  i could see a company like Gamestop pushing the Xbox 1 to the back of the store in a little corner like they did the ps3 shortly after launch, hell the ps3 was always either in the back of my store or in recent years middle of the store with the wii and 360 being towards the front.

One last thing to note walmart near my house is selling the X1 with 2 games CoD and ryse for 525$ essentialy 75$ off roughly.

I hear they are 6k apart these days.

Sensational, but true.

Yep, and XOne just sold 10k in Europe previous week...

The Motley Fool is generally a good share market investment advise outfit. But it seems when they stray beyond their core business they tend towards the click bait hyperbole.

Not to say Xb one isn't staring down the barrel of a terrible generation right now. It's quite possible Xb one will have a worse generation relative to Xbox 360 sales than PS3 did compared to PS2. PS3 has ended up well above 50% of PS2 LTD sales. Without a substantial boost in Xb one's fortunes Xb one may struggle to get >40 million (50% of 360 sales).

Ironically though Xb one might be MS's most profitable console if it can keep it's HW price in the black for most of the generation.

This is the first I've heard of fool.com and this is coming from someone who did an internship at an investment management company and someone who is training to become an Actuary. In addition to that, my comment didn't specifically refer to the website as a whole, rather the article and how the word 'fool' represents my views of the author of the article.