No. Not only are they clearly having production issues (anecdotally, I'm regularly seeing PS5s in stores these days, but it's been a while since I've seen a Series X sitting on shelves), but the full benefits of their expanded first-party roster of studios has yet to be realized. If they can start getting a steady supply of Series X units in stores and once they start getting more marquee titles like Starfield out, we'll see more growth. The XBS was doing pretty good for the first half of 2022, and is outpacing the XBO in the U.S. during its second year prior to the holidays, but it clearly had a rough go at it over the past several months, with November being barely up YoY.
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