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

[Norion]

JRPGfan said:

Norion said:

Yeah I keep bringing it up cause it's a good recent example of a current gen only game boosting hardware sales. The legs part is irrelevant to my point since as I said GTA 6 will obviously cause a much bigger boost than that game so even if it's mostly contained to just one month it'll still make a significant difference for that year and it getting delayed or not doesn't change the broader point about the long term prospects of the console since that'll just shift the boost forward by a few months or so if it does get delayed.

I'm not sure what your point with the Game Pass part is since I was referring to some players still on gen 8 consoles finally upgrading if the 2025 one isn't released on those.

In the UK supposedly for that month, the sales of xbox's doubled.
In the US, it had a simular effect.... and yet, the PS5 was still #1 for both unit sales and dollar sales that month.

GTA 6 effect, shouldn't last just a month and then drop off...  I expect much more from it, than starfield did.
Atleast in terms of staying around longer. Starfield kinda fizzled out quick.

I do think the boost from it won't just be for a single month. If it releases say September then I think October-December would also get boosted some and it would help 2026 overall at least a tad. For Xbox in particular this is a case where the Series S will make a difference since even if the version on that is poor some people will still go with it to play GTA 6 for cheap.