Ganoncrotch said:
When it comes to the reasons to choose an X1 over the other systems available one of the main selling points early in the generation was "me and mates are coming from X360, we're getting the new Xbox's" that selling point works well while the system has a potential future but when it starts to decline in sales this reason to buy a console will have a cascade effect on sales dropping, each other person who picks a ps4 or switch instead of X1 means that the chances of someones mates all gaming on Xbox live are reduced on a weekly basis, other reasons to buy a X1 over a PS4 are basically comparisons of exclusives and AAA multiplats running significantly worse than on the rival system unless you're talking about the premium versions of the systems in which case the X1 sales are now dropping to the point where third parties would be foolish to invest extra dev time into X1X exclusive optimization given the smaller market that you are selling to. Switch has Nintendo games, portability and the attention of a lot of studios who are now opening up to porting software to the system because of its popularity. PS4 has some stellar exclusives and really gets the best treatment by 3rd parties in terms of optimization, resolution, frame rates. X1 has? pretty much every exclusive IP from the X360 generation has shifted to also be available on Win10 and multi platform games while they might run better than the Switch versions are still miles off the PS4 variants which would be it's direct TV only competition. I guess the system has a UHD 4k blu ray drive in it... but how popular is it in your area to buy physical media films and how available are 4k UHDs in your town? Pretty much only way I could get my hands on one is online. Perhaps there is something I'm missing when I look at the 3 systems but as someone who has a decent gaming PC, a PS4 and a Switch I feel I'm missing absolutely nothing by not having an X1 in my setup. |
What does that have to do with what i was saying though? I never claimed it's going to make a comeback or become competitive with PS4/Switch, that's obviously not gonna happen. But it selling another 9 million before being discontinued is not at all far-fetched.
I forget how much it sold in 2018 but IIRC it was in the ballpark of 7 million. A moderate drop due to the age of the system could see that decline to 5-6 million this year, then another 4 million between then and its discontinuation seems very achievable. It would only need to sell, say, 3 million in 2020 and another 1 million in 2021, that's hardly out of reach.
