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EricHiggin on 21 September 2021
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Azzanation said:
RolStoppable said:

They don't show the numbers because they are significantly lower than Nintendo's and Sony's. By the way, the Xbox One was also the fastest selling Xbox in history. And most importantly, at the time Microsoft chose to hide Xbox One numbers, their business model had not changed from hardware sales to service yet, so your counter-argument is ultimately a failed attempt at revising history.

As for your fun fact, I'd like to see a breakdown of that. I don't think such a breakdown is possible, considering how obfuscated the Xbox business has been in financial reports for the better part of Xbox history.

Well considering the OG Xbox is the worst profitable console (losing $5b to $7b) in history followed by the 360 sitting in 3rd place (losing $3b should be enough evidence that the X1 did alright.

Why do they continue to hide sales numbers when the Series X has basically sold out? Its an odd thing to do when they can bragging about sales this gen since they are the best they have ever been. Also the changing business model was planned years before we actually seen the change, changes like that don't just happen over night. Id expect you would know that about how businesses would work.

Its really odd that MS announced X1 launch sales figures when it was the fastest selling Xbox in history than all of a sudden don't show the Series S/X when it is surpassing X1 as the fastest selling Xbox in history. Yup, has nothing to do with the fact Xbox is more a service..

XBSX sales might be kept under wraps because to put those numbers out without XBSS numbers it'll immediately raise a red flag.

Wouldn't be surprising to find out that sales are like PS4 to Pro were (at least at one point) at 5:1 or something like that, which MS likely wouldn't want people seeing because that really takes away from the most powerful console marketing. If the best of the best console is selling poorly compared to the weak console that wouldn't look strong to consumers and could also lead to investors wondering why waste time and money with a high end console (other than for servers).

The high end model has its merits though so do you really want to open that can of worms and have to explain all the reasons why, without possibly negatively impacting your present marketing situation in any way? Probably not.