September 2023 VGChartz Estimates Thread - Worldwide Estimates Out Now

[DonFerrari]

curl-6 said:

DonFerrari said:

Considering sales curve I would say that even outselling X1 isn't ensured, and that is investing 100B on the system and increasing GP on consoles to saturation point already.

Yeah I am starting to doubt it will even outsell the Xbone, which is astounding poor considering how badly they fucked up that console. It beggars belief how badly they've handled the Xbox brand for the last decade.

XtremeBG said:

The PS2 wasn't. In fact it went out to sell 30% of it's sales lifetime after it's 6th year.

However what he is trying to say it mostly about the Switch is down more than expected in comparison to the previous months in the year, as they were almost flat with 2022 and now the difference is bigger. In other words, Switch is way more down this month than it was every other month.

I said "most consoles".

The way I see it, it's more that the last few months were abnormally higher than they otherwise would be thanks to TOTK reinvigorating the system, now it's coming back to a more a more natural level for a highly successful console in year 7. But the lull will likely only be temporary; Wonder should provide another boost.

And considering that sales is going down in the third year (more than on previous gen) I would say the excuses of the launch of X1 being bigger because of X360 momentum (while claiming it wasn't bigger because of the problems on the reveal, even ignoring that most of the fans on the site were saying those were great moves) and Series being lower because of the fail of X1 (while Series have garner basically full love from Xbox fans) but couldn't increase makes it look like they were all excuses and Xbox really fails to get any traction when PS isn't fucking up (the month Series were able to win basically were due to lack of inventory from PS).