Will Xbox Series X/S make it to 36 million?

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xboxgreen said:

Zippy6 said:

And that's putting it mildly.

Xbox 360 Sales (Jan-May 2013) = 2.18m
Xbox One sales (Jan-May 2020) = 2.09m
Xbox Series Sales (Jan-May 2025) = 1.13m

The Xbox One in the year it was replaced was selling almost double what the Xbox Series is doing this year, which itself wasn't a sales success.

I agree with you, MS can't wait till 2027/2028 to launch their next console and keep the Series running. 2024 sales were already a record low for the full year sales of a current xbox console, 2025 will again be Xbox's worst on record. If the Series isn't discontinued by the end of 2026 sales will be so low it might as well be.

The next Xbox consoles are going to be very expensive. More than what most casual gamers are going to stomach. They need to continue the Xbox series consoles sales. Xbox Ones were still getting games 4 years later. Series consoles will be powerful enough to run next gen games minus all the bells and whistles.

I mean we know the year on year declines Xbox is having, you don't continue to make hardware that is seeing 40%-50% year on year declines with already low numbers. For example; Xbox this year is selling considerably less than Switch 1, and that is an older console that was on its way out this year. And the Switch numbers were so low for Nintendo that they needed a replacement on the market as quickly as possible this year, while Xbox series X/S could only dream about reaching the very low Switch 1 sales this year.