January NPD 2019

[chakkra]

curl-6 said:

chakkra said:

But they DID reverse its fortune. I mean, taking into account how bad it was at the reveal, this could have a been really a Wii U situation. In fact, given the fact that the MS brand is nowhere near as recognized as Nintendo's worldwide, I would say that the OG X1 had everything to bomb even harder than the Wii U.

And yet, when everything is said and done, the X1 will have outsold 4 out 7 Nintendo's home consoles (not counting VB).  Again, given how strong is Nintendo's brand, can we really consider that as such a bad thing?

Xbone still always had the full backing of all the big third parties, something Nintendo hasn't had since the SNES. The market has also grown massively since those days, back then you could sell 50 million and be market leader, now to do that you need over 100 million.

3 of the 4 Nintendo consoles you describe come from a time when the gaming population was vastly smaller than today, so outselling them in the current gen is not really an achievement.

Ok, let me see if I understand this.  So what you're saying is that without: 

1) Kinect drop 

2) Price cut

3) BC

4)PlayAnywhere

5)Gamespass and

6)X1X

The X1 still would have sold the same thing just because "Xbone still always had the full backing of all the big third parties".  Is that what you´re saying?

And I´m willing to bet that at the end of gen8, the market share of the X1 will be bigger than the marketshare that the N64 and GC had in their respective generations.