| shikamaru317 said:
Xbox Series is leading Xbox One by 1.5m and 360 by nearly 4m in spite of being severely supply constrained (particular Series X), and yet we still have people predicting lifetime sales for Xbox Series in the neighborhood of 50-60m, lol. Xbox One's best chance of catching back up to Xbox Series was on the Holiday since XB1 was always a strong Holiday seller, and while XB1 did make up more than 500k of the gap in November, Xbox Series was gaining again in December thanks to stronger Series S stock in December, and now for the first 2 weeks of January Xbox Series has been leading XB1 by about 60k, which establishes that the Xbox Series 2022 weekly baseline will be well above Xbox One's weekly 2015 baseline, and this is while Series X is nearly as hard to find as PS5 is. Eventually supply will catch up to demand, and eventually the dozens of 1st party games Xbox has in development from their soon to be 30+ studios and 40+ teams will start releasing. I feel like the Bethesda and Acti-Blizz acquisitions pretty much guarantee 70m+ for Xbox Series, and I'd say that topping 360's 86m is a likely possibility. |
A large number of gamers (particularly the older ones) still treat Xbox as the uninvited interloper of the industry, and those predictions of 50 million series consoles were more wishful thinking than rational analysis.
I think those sentiments will become less common with time. The purchase of Zenimax and ABK bought Microsoft a permanent spot in the games industry.
