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G2ThaUNiT on 01 July 2023
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Farsala said:
gtotheunit91 said:

When it came to the discourse online, you’d think the Xbox One sold as much as the Dreamcast or Wii U lol. A huge downgrade compared to the 360 of course, but with how dreadful the Xbox One started the generation, that is a respectable turnaround.

And that’s with a minimum number of what I would consider must have exclusives. Even with Series consoles having only a few notable exclusives up to this point, 20+ million is a pretty good start all things considered after just 2 years. Definitely being carried by Game Pass though lol.

Now that Series X is finally getting its production problems sorted out just in time for the release of Starfield, by far Xbox’s biggest exclusive since the 360, things are finally lining up. Already 4 known exclusives for 2024 and that will only continue to grow. If Xbox’s first party releases are consistent in quality, Series consoles should be able to reach, if not succeed, the 360.

XB1 did great early on because of games. It was the latter years where things fell off due to games.

Those initial few months, yes, but things died off very quickly. By the time the white Xbox One released alongside Sunset Overdrive at the end of 2014, which I had gotten, XOne sales had long tanked and the course was that XOne was already lost and PS4 skyrocketed. The number of must have games were almost nonexistent after the first year, $100 more expensive, forced Kinect, and more of a focus on entertainment than gaming really destroyed the Xbox brand after that first year which led to no more announced console sales shortly thereafter. 

Things really started turning around by the time the One S and especially the One X released. Which around that time was when Game Pass released. 

Phil Spencer had to turn around Xbox’s entire business, including shutting down their entertainment division. It took a few years to get the brand turned around then that’s when they started their studio acquisitions since they had only 3-4 first party studios lol, and focus on PC and Cloud.