Not 100% sure....It probably will, but I voted no. It felt right.

If Halo Infinite comes out strong, you can bet there will be a sales boost. Not including Gears 5, Battletoads, Ori 2 and whatever else they have on the horizon due this year. 

I think that's a sound appraisal of the situation. 

I'm curious to see what Microsoft do at E3 in a week's time. If they announce a "nextbox" that has a budget SKU that is coming in 2019 then it's fair to say Xbox One sales will stall. This will be especially true if their upcoming games are also on PC day and date. It sounds stupid to announce something that early to cannibalize your own sales but don't forget this is the company who announced the Xbox One X about 18 months before release.

One thing is for sure, Microsoft can't wait for the next gen to start. Their most successful console The Xbox 360 was released a full year before the competition, does Microsoft think going early again will achieve the same results? 

Yes, but only by a little.

This also depends a lot on whether MS is sticking to that stuff they said about the end of generations. since they stopped talking about that a couple of years ago, I'm guessing they've changed their mind. But, if they say that the next gen consoles are basically just Xbox One X 2, and the games for the next several years will be playable on a regular Xbox One, or even Xbox one x, I would say that the Xbox One will handily pass the SNES. But, if they announce next week that they're making a clean start on a new generation before the end of 2020, it's going to be a lot harder to sell another 8mm X1s.

I'm skeptical right now. It certainly seems possible; however, I am also anticipating the announcement/reveal of the NextBox this year, and if that happens, I expect it would slow down Xbone sales significantly, which would certainly hinder its ability to make that milestone.

Additionally, there's also the question of whether the SNES Classic should count towards SNES numbers. On one hand, it's very different hardware, but on the other hand, it is very specifically SNES games and nothing outside of SNES that is driving those sales. If it WERE counted, that would push SNES numbers up to around 55m and I would say it's definitively certain Xbone won't outsell that.

That all depends from not dropping harder, but I get behind the reasoning.

I do expect XBO to drop faster, especially if it's successor will already be announced at this E3, which should ruin this year's sales already.

It's not a question. It's dumb to retroactively add numbers to discontinued systems when a classic/flashback is released years later. Otherwise we could say the Sega Genesis outsold the N64 due to all those Sega Megadrive/Genesis tv consoles, that's just changing history.

It comes down to whether those were official console releases or not. Why wouldn't you count an official console released by Nintendo with the SNES moniker, that is designed strictly to play only existing SNES games? Companies bring discontinued products back all the time, and companies make revisions to products for re-releases all the time. Why should this be considered any differently?

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/- Nintendo say no.