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thismeintiel on 01 December 2018
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derpysquirtle64 said:
100% it will. It's hard to imagine what should happen at this point to Xbox One that it won't reach 50m mark. I think the more interesting question is will it outsell NES? Which really depends on how Microsoft will handle next-gen. Will they make One X as an entry option for next-gen by reducing it's price and making the newer console a high-end option?

No way MS does that. They don't have the pull to force devs to continue to develop on the outdated HW for next gen. Even if they forced the issue by saying they must do it or they can't publish on the XB2, many devs would just refuse.

As for the NES, I doubt XBO goes much past 55M, let alone 60M.

Mr Puggsly said: 
thismeintiel said: 
Depends. If next year is mainly silent and MS has more firesales, I think they should achieve ~50M-55M when all is said and done. However, if next year is filled with PS5 talk for the last half of the year, you may see people skipping out on it (and PS4 to a lesser extent), looking forward to next gen. And if MS continues the same policy of releasing everything on PC and has more expensive HW at launch, I see the XB2 performing worse than the XBO.

Even if X1 sales decline with anticipation of the next gen, it shouldn't be far from 50 million when that begins happening. So even with a sales decline it should make it to 50 million.

If Xbox sales decline because of sharing gaming with PC, then I guess that would mean Xbox games are doing very well on PC? If the next Xbox sells less, it would likely be for other reasons.

I agree that it definitely looks certain to hit 50M. At least on VGC, since we have no official numbers.

The XB2 would sell less because it will be redundant out of the gate. All of its games may be payable on PC, meaning that it wouldn't have a unique personality, like the PS5 and Switch. And if this gen is anything to go on, MS doesn't mind being more expensive out of the gate, which also will not help them. Even if they have a slight power advantage over PS5.