2017 was solid year for Xbox One sales in spite of exclusvies.

[Normchacho]

Mr Puggsly said:

Normchacho said:
So...It looks like sales are going to be pretty much flat this year compared to the last two. Doesn't that also mean that BC, the One S, the One X, and nearly constant sales and deals have only managed to keep One sales stable? Is that good?

Stable sales are not a worst case scenario. Especially when its a pretty strong number. With stable sales it could surpass SNES and NES.

Look at it this way, Wii U was a disaster because its best year was 5 million, the launch year. While every year after was 3 - 3.5 million until it dropped like a rock in 2016.

So I do believe steady numbers would be a good position. If they wanna go up, its gonna take to some big software to accomplish that I suppose. At least the X1's price is already in a good place, I mean $199 with games is pretty amazing for its capabilities.

Oh of course not. Stable sales are far from the worst case scenario. But it looks to me like they might be running out of ways to bolster sales, which means if they start to slip they won't have a way to pull out of it. I'm of the belief that if a system wants to sell well consistently then they need to keep giving people new reasons to buy it. The same things that bolstered sales in 2017 aren't going to be as effective in 2018.

I'd argue that outside of exclusives, MS has done way more to make the One appealing than the PS4 over the last two years. BC, The One S and X being bigger upgrades than the Slim and Pro, pushing for cross platform play, frequent deals, gamepass and EA access, ect. Not many huge things on their own (except for the One S and the deals, I'd argue) but they add up to quite a bit, And yet this year the Xbox One will likely be up 5 or 6% from last year, while the PS4 will be up around 20% from last year. They've had to try really hard to keep sales stable, and I think they're running out of cards to play to keep sales stable.

I think there's a good chance that 2017 will be the Xbox One's best year, and I don't know if we'll see another year where the Xbox One sells better in one year than it did the year before. Unless they stop following traditional generations of course.