Cerebralbore101 said:
jason1637 said:
You can blame it on MS early gen mishaps and them waiting late in the gen to begin building up their 1st party. At the end of 2017 the XBOX has sold over two and a half million less than the 360 and later in the generation the 360 had the Kinect to help boost it sales.
If MS had kept their exclusives only on Xbox it's still unlikely that they would have sold 60m because they would need to have sold over 25m in the last 2 years and the XBO has never sold that well.
The future will be streaming. Once internet speeds becomes stable and consistent consoles will sell less and Sony has been laying the groundwork for this with PS NOW and now bringing games to other platforms. It's better they build on it now or they will get left behind.
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Kinect helped boost 360 sales?
Kinect did absolutely nothing for 360 sales. Not sure what makes you think it did, but thanks for the chuckle. :D
So XB1 only did two and a half million less than 360 year for year in 2017? So at that point aligned sales were neck and neck for the two systems' lifetime sales right?
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It's pretty well known that Kinect helped the 360 later in its life. The 360 was losing steam in 2009 compared to its previous year and when the Kinect launched in 2010 it gave new life the console alongside third party games like Black Ops.
By the end of 2017 aligned sales by 4 years (2009 v 2017) the 360 was up over the XBO by over 2.5m. The XBO sales were already down for 2 years and has never reached 10m while the 360 had been able to sell over 10m for two consecutive years and the Kinect years followed. It would have been hard for MS to keep up with the 360 or come close to 60m with Xbox only exclusives.
