| aTokenYeti said: Given the circumstances (almost 0 games of note, and certainly none that push console sales) Xbox's sales performance this year was nothing short of outstanding. |
Agreed. Current tracking suggests that 2022 will be Xbox's 6th biggest hardware year ever:
2011- 14.1m
2010- 13.9m
2008- 11.1m
2012- 10.8m
2009- 10.6m
2022- 10.3-10.5m most likely
The fact that Xbox managed to nearly make top 5 in 2022 with 0 big exclusives and not enough Series X stock to meet demand is pretty remarkable. I think alot of people are still underestimating Xbox Series, in 2023 it is looking like it will beat at least one of the 3 Kinect boosted years for 360 (2010-2012), possibly even all 3 of them if everything goes right (Starfield is popular and has a bundle, good S and X bundles for Holiday 2023, return of the $250 S deal for Holiday 2023 and maybe even a $450 deal on X for the Holiday, Xbox has a 4th or 5th AAA exclusive for 2023 other than Starfield, Forza, and Redfall).
If 2023 does beat some or all of the Kinect boosted 360 years, it will be doing it earlier in it's lifecycle too when hardware prices are higher and there are less games available, so later years for Xbox Series should be even bigger than 2023. I can't see 2023 being the peak year for the system, not when there are still so many big exclusives and price cuts ahead of it.
