Global Hardware 13 July 2019

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Ganoncrotch said:
so in the last 12 months the weekly sales of the X1 have dropped from around the 100k mark per week down to sub 40k, but the 3ds dropped from around 50k > 20k per week, what I'm thinking is, the 3ds still has a reason to be bought, it's a cheaper alternative to the Switch if you wanted to buy someone a handheld system which has a huge library of games, while the buying an x1 over the last 12 months has basically been getting a ps4 but worse and not particularly for less money either, considering that free2play games aren't free2play so budget gamers who want their fortnite should always pick ps4 over X1.

So.... what are the chances that the X1 sales continue to tumble and the 3ds continues to decline at the same % pace, could we see some weeks where the 3ds could actually sell above the X1? I know it would take a few months still before they would come that close to each other, but I'm just thinking around the holiday season, I would think that kids are more likely to end up getting a 3ds from older relatives than an Xbox one at times just because like I said... there's still a market for what the 3ds is offering, I think between PS4 , Switch and PC the X1's only main reason to exist now is fans of the brand, which as we see are in strong decline on a week to week basis.

Now this seems a bit of a stretch, I can't see Xbone falling below 3DS weekly numbers, especially not with the Lite set to soon replace 3DS as the affordable go-to portable. Xbox tends to have a disproportionate amount of its sales during the holidays; even when it founders through the year it somehow always does at least decently over the Xmas season.