| XtremeBG said: Why is not doing the Wii U levels 2013-2015 ? It's exactly at that level. Wii U most months in that time period were between 100 and 180k. Xbox Series just recently dropped from doing 200k+ per month to doing 130-140k. It is still in that 100-180k frame. Wii U even had months in 2013, under 100k, so don't rule the Series out so quick. It's just started doing Wii U levels since May. For next gen Xbox, if there isn't big change the way Microsoft runs their console market, then I see it barely above 20M. Also, big chunk of that Series sales were because of the PS5 shortages first two years, you forgot to mention that, not only the cheaper S option. |
I thought Wii U hovered around 130-180k? Very few months did it drop below this, yet XBSXS has been hovering around the lower end of this spectrum for the past few months. It wouldn’t be keeping pace with Wii U if it were selling like this during 2013-2015, though it wouldn’t be lagging too far behind either…so point taken. As far as XBSXS is concerned? I do anticipate sales will be stronger next year once GTAVI releases, but after that it’s essentially finished. I agree the system still has some legs remaining, albeit very small.
Lastly, “you forgot to mention that.” I didn’t mention anything more than “XBSXS was very lucky at the start of the gen,” which was worded to strongly point toward XBSXS’s present success being a consequence of the PS5 shortage, and the luck of producing a system (Series S) with a chip which wasn’t affected by the chip shortage. And I chose to be intentionally broad because I don’t know the full scope of what happened back then (e.g. I’m pretty sure XBSXS had a very strong year in 2021 as far as software is concerned..I wasn’t paying attention to the games industry at that point in my life).
