If XBX fails, what next?

[Mr Puggsly]

Slownenberg said:
i'm fulling expecting the xbox one x to fail. I mean it's target audience is very niche, the gamer who has a 4k tv and wants to spend a ton of extra money just to play games in 4k. I figure most people who have a 4k tv and are gamers are people who are all into the latest gadget so they are gonna already have a ps4 or xbox and only the few that are way way super into having the latest tech thing would want to spend another $500 just to play in 4k.

I don't see xbx selling more than 3 million lifetime.

I feel like Microsoft should try something new with their next console, being one of the console twins isn't working because Playstation is a much stronger brand. I don't know what that different thing is, but Sony and Nintendo currently have hugely popular systems and xbox is just languishing. Xbox needs to do something different. Graphics are so good these days that few people care about graphical differences between a "weak" console and a strong console like xbox1x because they all have amazing graphics.

Its possible the X1X could phase out the X1S in a few years. I mean if they can get it down to $299 in a few years then why bother producing X1S?

At some point I expect there will only be X1X and perhaps a successor. So your prediction of 3 million is low because at some point I think X1X will become the cheap option to play modern games.