"On their lattest podcasts Origami organised a discussion focust on the evolution of Xbox strategy last few years.
On this occasion Oscar mentioned the French situation which continues to be quite disatrous for Microsoft.
From it's weak 2023 year, the console collapse as much or more than the now very old Switch (with is on signifiant decline in France YTD) with PS outselling them about 8:1.
He think that the anoncement of Microsoft releasing games on Playstation and Nintendo Switch had a negative impact on Hardware.
Xbox Series is as of now the worst selling Xbox hardware here launch aligned trailling launch aligned OG Xbox by 0.1M.
Hardware sales evolution in France
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5
Xbox - 0.2M 0.3M 0.3M 0.1M
Xbox 360 0.1M 0.2M 0.2M 0.6M 0.5M
Xbox one 0.1M 0.3M 0.3M 0.3M 0.3M
Xbox Series 0.1M 0.2M 0.2M 0.2M -
Wii U 0.1M 0.2M 0.2M 0.2M 0.1M
Hardware Install Base evolution in France
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5
Xbox - 0.2M 0.5M 0.8M 0.9M
Xbox 360 0.1M 0.3M 0.5M 1.1M 1.6M
Xbox one 0.1M 0.4M 0.7M 1.0M 1.3M
Xbox Series 0.1M 0.3M 0.5M 0.7M -
Wii U 0.1M 0.3M 0.5M 0.7M 0.8M
Numbers rouded to nearst 100k because of lack of more presice numbers for Xbox Series."
Source- https://www.installbaseforum.com/threads/france-weekly-sales-thread-2024-edition.2313/post-260183
