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AJNShelton on 14 April 2021
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Dulfite said:
SKMBlake said:

Yeah no that's not gonna happen.

If the Series X/S sell barely more than Xbox One with game pass and cheaper price point (for Series S, and also Series X if you count inflation), that does say a lot.

For now, it's selling mostly to people:

- who own or owned an Xbox One, or

- who couldn't get a PS5 yet

Yeah, I know, "supply issues". But so has the PS5, and still manage to sell on par with PS4. And above all, Series S has less supply issues.

So I don't think it will sell "70 million minimum". We don't even know how accurate is the 50 million prediction for the Xbox One.

How do you know who it is selling to mostly?

Also, I'd love to see how the PC gaming market now compares to Xbox One days. Whether it's Gamepass PC subscription or just buying games on Xbox PC platform, I believe it is growing. Every person that buys a pc and games on Gamepass PC instead of buying an Xbox still fills Microsoft's coffers (I bought a Razorblade 15 Advanced instead of an Xbox Series X, for example). PlayStation doesn't make up for lost revenue by having a PC storefront that they can sell all almost all their games or a subscription service on like Xbox does, so they NEED to do as well as the PS4 otherwise they are shrinking Y/Y, whereas even if Series S/X sold less than Xbox One, we don't know for certain whether or not their overall market is shrinking because we have no hard data on the PC front of things. If Series S/X does the same or better than One, then it is doing MUCH better than One because there are millions (at least) of people gaming on Gamepass PC instead of buying an Xbox or PlayStation.

It's a website and forum about console sales, you can argue how it doesn't matter, but we mostly are here because we are interested in console sales. Subscription numbers is a nice bonus, but that doesn't change the fact about why we (mostly) are here.