| Heavenly_King said: how can the XBO manage to sell that much with their current gen library of games??? |
I would think that they are doing well because of the services they offer and third party games. First party games will always be important, but third party games are just as significant, a lot of people probably buy systems just to play third party games primarily, which is why you see marketing deals for them all the time. A big third party game can sell a system just as much as a big first party game can, and the companies know that because why else would they be paying to have the marketing for their system otherwise.
They may be lacking in first party and exclusives at the moment, but what they do have in services and third party games is still huge. Gamepass, Backwards Compatibility, Play Anywhere, etc are just a few of the things they offer that are great features that none of the other companies have. (and yeah there's PS Now but you have to pay for that, plus it's streaming so it's not the same).
Combined with the fact that the recently released Xbox One X can now get the best looking/running versions of those big games, it's basically the best place you can go for just playing mostly third party games, there was even an article recently that said the same thing.
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