Global Hardware Mar 28-Apr 3 - Xbox One Sales Top 50 Million

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SKMBlake said:

jason1637 said:

50 million is a good milestone even though last gen was hard for MS they’ve done a great job at turning things around. Hopefully the Series X can sell much more than the Xbox One when it’s all said and done.

Did they really turn thing around tho ?

The console spent 4/5 of its life heavily discounted, they released 4 iterations, they even released a console way way more powerful than any other console, they implemented Game Pass, but still get quickly outsold by a 2015 tablet which costed more, was way less powerful and had way less 3rd party support, with games being sold at full price. And the success of the console is pretty much limited to the US market and the UK.

I believe the console would eventually ended up selling 50 million anyway, which will become I believe the baseline for upcoming Xbox consoles in the future.

No way. Early in its life, after the first couple months, the XBox One was barely selling above the WiiU globally and was on pace to only sell like 20-25 million. I think 50 million was the best case scenario for the One after that abysmal start, so they did turn it around pretty well, thanks to the very measures you describe. Now they have better momentum and the Series consoles are regularly selling much better weekly numbers than the One was at this point.