Ryuu96 said:
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Xbox already making smart moves to make this a big hardware sales year, I personally wasn't expecting the first Series X bundle until Starfield's launch at the earliest, possibly not until Holiday 2023, so this is an even faster timeline than I expected.
It should be fairly easy for Xbox to make 2023 their 3rd biggest hardware year ever, current top 3 is:
2011- 14.1m
2010- 13.9m
2008- 11.1m
Xbox Series is currently tracking toward 10m+ in 2022 here on VGC (probably around 10.4m end of December as there are still 3 more weeks of December tracking, and 2 of those 3 weeks were pre-Christmas weeks boosted by the return of the $250 S deal from Black Friday and Cyber Monday week). If Xbox Series could manage 10m+ in 2022 with no exclusives, they should at least be able to pull off 13m in 2023 between a. multiple AAA exclusives including Starfield (previous 2 singleplayer Bethesda RPG's sold 20m+ and 30m+ copies respectively), b. better Series X production numbers, and c. S and X bundles available throughout the year, increasing their value per dollar. Who knows, they may even have a shot at dethroning 2011 if Starfield is popular enough and has a bundle with good numbers available.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 05 January 2023
