Did Microsoft make big a mistake?

[DonFerrari]

gtotheunit91 said:

DonFerrari said:

Since we don't have the VR sales yet we can't infer much.

Yeah, fair point. I was asking because Steam Deck is always the best seller on Steam every week, but Steam goes by revenue, so it would make sense that the Deck is always the best seller just because of how much more expensive it is over games.

chakkra said:

DonFerrari said:

I would say you missed the difference between Sony and Xbox main games being SP and MP games so Sony having a much more front loaded sales curve, just look at the maximum peaks, but sure after some weeks Sony games will drop from the top while MS games will be there for longer.

I didn't miss it at all. I simply did not mention it because it doesn't make a difference to my point; whether someone is driven to buy a game because it is singleplayer or multiplayer it makes no difference; at the end of the day, something about said game drew them in. In fact, I would argue that the relative lack of multiplayer exclusives from Sony should have given Xbox an advantage with that demographic, but so far that theorical advantage hasn't translated into hardware sales; why? because people are content playing them on PC.

You were talking about the ranking of consecutive sales on PC. Even in consoles if you go look for the ranking most of Sony titles drop the rank very fast after release (I have seem 60 to 85% drop from launch week to second week), so if the title is front loaded it may sell 5M in the first week and being on the first spot and never again showing in top10 and perhaps in 1 month dropping from top 100 and still would sell a lot more than a title that released with 500k sold first week being let's say 10 in the rank but then remaining 6 months on the top 100. That is why I told you to look at the maximum peak of the titles and you'll see that most of the Sony titles had higher numbers than Xbox on that metric. So it is likely that the difference in sales between the MS and Sony titles in PC isn't that big.

SKMBlake said:

Wman1996 said:

The Xbox Series is on the path to outsell the Xbox One by a notable margin

Wow, where did you see that ?

He is probably only taking in consideration that MS still says Series is so far the fastest Xbox in sales ever.