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

[xboxgreen]

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

xboxgreen said:

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.

The problem with this response is that it assumes MS still cares about selling hardware as a competitor in the console space. They might produce hardware but if it they don't care about competing it doesn't matter when XBSS/X are discontinued and it also doesn't matter when/if they launch the next hardware. It will just be it's own thing that's not designed to compete with anything so it won't be pitted against any other devices. 

Edit - I quoted the wrong post but my point still stands. 

Wrong. Xbox is still profitable even if it doesn't sell as much as Playstation / Nintendo. Microsoft wants to keep Xbox around because if they went full third party and abandon Xbox / console market, Playstation will have all the leverage. That situation will be a nightmare for Microsoft. Xbox keeps playstation in check so they won't pull another PS3.


Next Xbox will more than likely have a feature where you can boot windows gaming OS to play steam games. However, I can imagine it being locked behind a pay wall. Also, Microsoft doesn't want to lose console only games like GTA and Sports games even if it is timed exclusive.