November Circana (NPD) 2023 Thread + Predictions

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JRPGfan said:

NightF0x73 said:

These are the worlwide number for November 2023 ?

Hope Microsoft will react and invest in marketing.

Don't want them to leave the Hardware market.

Xbox hardware isnt going anywhere anytime soon.
MS has more than enough money, to carry Xbox, forever if needed (which it isnt, its still profitable).

However, I think they really do need to focus more on the rest of the world.
This america first, mostly 100% focused approach isnt working.

Time to invest in marketing (rest of world), hireing people to do translations (instead of useing auto-translations from google), doing voice overs, in many more lanagues ect for games/OS's.

The games will come, and will carry Xbox.
The amount of studio's now under the xbox banner is nuts. It should be enough to compete with playstation.

All thats lacking is abit more focus on quality over quantity.
And a more global thinking mindset, in the approach to xbox.

There are a lot of different rumblings. Shinobi, has in response to As Dusk Falls getting a PlayStation port, implied that there are several more previously Xbox Exclusive games coming to PlayStation. I have seen other rumblings about future XGS/ACTI/Bethesda titles coming to other consoles as well as Xbox and also rumours of a new Xbox Generation starting in 2026, but I don't know whether to put stock into the source of those rumours unlike Shinobi who I have trust for. 

If I had to use one word to describe Xbox's future in the hardware space it would be uncertain. We'll just have to see what happens.