Will Xbox Series X/S make it to 40 million?

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chakkra said:

curl-6 said:

Yikes at the quarterly results.
A console in its 4th year being down 42% YOY is disastrous.
40 million is looking less and less likely; at this point the only Hail Mary it has left is if the Series S gets a boost from being the cheapest entry point to GTA6 next year, and by then the brand may be so dead in the water even that may not help much.

I mean, 25 million X1 owners were just told: "Hey, it's okay, you can go with PS5 this time around; You will be able to play all of our games there eventually". Not only that, but those X1 owners had to watch Microsoft releasing Hi-FI Rush in other platforms, all while cinically chanting "When everybody plays, we all win!".

I'm actually amazed that anyone could think that this would turn out any different.

Pretty much yeah; putting their first party games on Playstation effectively kills all reason to buy an Xbox, and with it their hardware business. 

Unless something drastically changes, which is looking increasingly unlikely, I expect the next Xbox will be the last and will probably sell Wii U to Gamecube numbers.