Global Hardware Mar 6-13 - Xbox Series X|S Sales Top 4 Million

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Sogreblute said:

Some people here think the Xbox Series systems will sell less than Xbox One all because they're putting their games on PC. Sure Microsoft will lose a very few amount of sales, but there are just so many people out there that would rather play on console or playing on a Xbox system is just their preference to play games on. The Xbox One sold 50 million with no exclusives (or very few). Microsoft literally proved you can put games on PC and have good console sales. There are a lot of PC gamers that just refuse to buy consoles and markets (mainly Asia) that don't bother with consoles at all, so how can you get them to buy your games if they won't buy your console? Microsoft found this answer and Sony is playing catch up to this.

I think the Xbox Series will sell more than Xbox One. Think about where the Xbox brand was back in 2013 and 2014. Now look at it. Much better focus, marketing, services, etc. Microsoft is in a much, much better position now. Part of the reason the PS4 sold 115 million is Microsoft and Nintendo literally shot themselves in the foot at the start of the 8th generation. Now that both are stronger I think that will make the PS5 sell less than the PS4.

Xbox One didn't lose its games to PC until well into its life though, while from day 1 people know Xbox Series games will all be on PC.

Sure, some like myself will opt for a console over a PC for convenience, but it's still a hard sell pushing a box with no true exclusives.

Their marketing and services may have improved, but neither will necessarily boost sales substantially beyond just pleasing the already converted as Game Pass seems to be doing, and whereas Xbox One at least had 80 million plus 360 users to draw from, Series has less than 50 million Xbone users to draw on.

Maybe time will prove me wrong, but at this point I'm not sold on Xbox Series doing any better than Xbox One in sales.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 28 March 2021