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Mike_L on 10 June 2016
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Lrdfancypants said:
Turkish said:
Also I call BS on this: "There are supposed to be 2x as many Xboxes out there as there are right now"

MS expected 40m consoles out by now like the PS4? Yeah sure, even Shu said Sony was surprised by their sales.

I don't think it's BS at all. The 2x might be exaggerating but I definitely think many are surprised by how this generation has played out so far including Sony. 

Before the reveals I think devs, publishers, game journalists etc... Probably thought this was the generation MS would take off with, especially in the US. No possible way they thought the next playstation would be leading in the US at least after it got trounced there.   

I think MS considered the US on lock and expected to make headway elsewhere and not be fighting a losing battle on their home turf.  

I don't think it's bs either.

 

Apparently, it was not as much an expected 40 mill sold at this stage. It was an expected ability to sell as many (or even more) units than Sony.

And that didn't quite work out.