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Jereel Hunter on 28 April 2014
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Hankoney said:
Jereel Hunter said:
Hankoney said:
Of course it's not a failure to be number two, or even number three, but it sure seems like failure to have excess stock 5 months after launch, to need to give away for free a game you heavily invested in, to practically be DOA in half the countries you launched in, with barely a chance to even make a dent in all others you still haven't launched in. XOne's failure has just begun, but reality will set in when their only two exclusive old tiring franchises also fail to shift consoles barring a massive pricecut/free game combo.
Microsoft will be lucky if it manages to reach original XBox's sales, making this their last console ever.

Xbox one is starting this generation way, way WAY ahead of where PS3 began last generation. Whereas PS3 needed an early price drop just to compete, the X1 is selling solid, though unimpressive numbers. 

I'm not sure why I even responded, this is pretty obvious trolling.

I was not trolling, just stating my opinion. And nowhere have I even mentioned Playstation, I have no idea why you would bring it into this and try to stir trouble. 

XOne is a console of interest here, not some ozlther console from another manufacturer from a decade ago.

XBox is doing awfully, they have invested a billion into games, a hundred million into a controller, who knows how many hundreds of millions into Kinect, and I still haven't gotten to the console itself. And all they have to show for is giving away free games, slashing prices left and right, and hundreds of thousands of unsold stock gathering humidity in various warehouses.

Sure MS will sugarcoat any public relations message, but the fact is that they must be very dissatisfied with the consoles performance, losing marketshare in only two territories they ever had a competing chance, and being pushed into irrelevance in all other markets. That's why I think what I've written.

I wasn't stirring trouble. I was referring to the PS3 because it started last generation in the role the X1has now taken. (most expensive, less sales, talk of doooom) In this case though, the X1 is selling way better than the PS3 did int he same time frame, as a frame of reference, to show that it's not an indication of crashing and burning. (Not to mention MS is better financially prepared to change course, if necessary)

Xbox one is not doign badly as ALL. It's merely doing beneath expectations. To say Xbox is doing awfully is to say that every console ever released, with the exception of the Wii and a couple others has done "awfully" to begin with. The PS3, from a worse position, did some early price cuts and rebounded admirably. There's no reason the X1 can't do the same. 

As far as being 'lucky to reach the original Xbox's numbers', that's the trolling I'm referring to. All indications are that it will have outsold the original Xbox by the end of 2015, and if last generation showed us anything, it's that even with the Xbox not selling through in other regions, NA alone can carry it well past the original Xbox's numbers. The X1 is an investment for Microsoft, and even if it isn't very profitable it can benefit the brand in general. There is no chance, short of earth shattering events, that the X1 ends with less than 30m units sold... and even that would be well beneath every reasonable projection.