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If you look at exclusives and console sales outside the UK and the US, it's a failure. As a whole, I don't see it as a failure.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 151 million (was 73, then 96, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 57 million (was 60 million, then 67 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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Part of the problem is that the big selling point of the Xbox 360 wasn't the games, but the novelties (at the time) of Xbox Live, and then Kinect. Nobody else had that kind of unified online platform, and Kinect rode on the remnants of the motion control craze created by the Wii. Then there was also the fact that the PlayStation brand, even at its lowest, was still able to hold its own against Xbox.

None of those conditions exists anymore. Sony is repeating the dominance they held with the PS2 this generation. Nintendo is doing well with the Switch. Xbox Live isn't anything special anymore. Everything it offers is also offered by its competitors. And forcing Kinect into the initial launch of the Xbox One was a mistake. Microsoft badly misread the market. And while they were focusing on fleeting successes, they failed to cultivate any long-term stables of key properties beyond Halo or Forza Motorsport. I'm pretty sure that there are plenty within Microsoft itself that consider the One to be a relative failure.



Yes, it's a relative failure, relative to the 360. It doesn't have compelling triple A exclusives, the exclusives it does have are coming to PC. Microsoft have created an irrelevant console. Perhaps they will do better next time, although the XBOX ONE X indicates that they are out of touch with what gamers want.



Sales prediction, PS4: 122 Million, Xbox one: 50 million, Switch: 105 million. 

failure? yes.
easy answer: they messed up the original presentation, total catastrophy with used game strategy, then 180% turn, kinect catastrophy. please, i already had my ps4 when they finally had a clear strategy.
failure? yes



Not soo much but it's probably a failure for MS though. Mostly because multiplatform games, which is their bread and butter, now sell 3:1 on their main competitor's platform. Next gen they will need to either launch a console that will again have the superior multiplatform games or invest a shit ton in AAA exclusives if they plan to stay relevant.



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Carl2291 said:
It's a failure in the same way the PS3 was a failure, or the Wii U was a failure.

It completely and utterly failed to do what Microsoft expected it to do based on the reveal. They're losing marketshare, they lost pretty much all brand solidarity in mainland Europe and they failed to implement the ideas they had from the start. They killed off Kinect, they lost the firm grasp they had on America and Britain, they lost the grasp they had on the shooter market. Halo and Gears are shadows of what they were on the 360 and 1st party content has stagnated outside of Forza.

While the machine may go on to sell a respectable number when all is said and done, when you consider the position they were in prior to announcing Xbox One, the brand itself has shrunk drastically.

Yes, no sane person would call the PS3 a success even though it ended up selling 85 million. Even if we ignore the major loss for Sony, losing half of your marketshare when you were the dominant player in the industry, and effectively creating a new competitor in the market (if the 360 had performed like the OG Xbox, then bye bye Xbox). And the XBO is a failure in the same regard: MS has lost a lot of marketshare and mindshare in the gaming industry.



Are they making money? If so, it's a success from a business stand point. But I know Microsoft wanted to dominate the living room because they said so and when you look at the massive dump this console took when it came out, I'd say most of those guys would privately call it a failure.



Medisti said:

Failure? I'm actually curious. I hear a lot of people call it that. But, it's already around 30 million units. That puts it near the sales of the Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, and original Xbox, and it's still selling. It should definitely pass all of those consoles by the end of this year. It seems that gamers have this "either you're first or you're last" mentality when it comes to console sales. What do you all think?

The Sega Genesis beat the SNES in the US almost completely every year until 1994, when DKC and Sega's next console came out. You can't compare direct sales from older generations due to install base. Simply put, there are just way more people gaming now than back in those days. 



slab_of_bacon said:
It's not a failure... the company is making money and people are enjoying their time with it. One X is what they should have released in 2013 but that'll be in the past soon.

You cant be serious. The console would've easily been over $800. Well out of the range of the affordability of the mass population.



NightlyPoe said:
I'd classify it as a disappointment. Microsoft definitely lost market share and momentum.

Well yes, their marketshare is purely based on halving or taking what Sony has built since the mid 90's. Think about how much Sony has increased the console market post Ninttendo domination. If Microsoft would only add to that it would be incredible for the console space.