Spain Sales: Week 48, 2025 (Nov 24 - Nov 30) [Black Friday Week]

[Norion]

Sephiran said:

Norion said:

Man Xbox Series being down about 80% YoY this week is just absurd. It's selling like its successor has been out for a while but the next Xbox is probably still a couple years away so I am morbidly curious just how low its sales are gonna get by 2027. It's gonna get to a point where I dunno if it would even make sense to manufacture it any more. For the Switch 1 80% down points to a rapid decline outside of Japan.

The crazy thing is that in many countries, Xbox series is already doing late stage Wii U numbers in sales numbers this year. So if the next Xbox hardware is slated to release late 2027, that would be like Nintendo launching the Switch in 2020 and having the Wii U on the market for 3 extra years. Mindshare must be non existant in a lot of markets outside the US for the next Xbox if that timeline happens.

Going by sales, Xbox actually needed a new console on the market more than Nintendo this year, because Xbox is selling less than Switch 1 on a monthly basis this year even after Switch 1 got replaced by Switch 2.

At least the Wii U would've still kept getting Nintendo games till then. Like BOTW would've boosted Wii U sales if the Switch wasn't a thing but the only possible thing left that could do anything for Xbox sales at all at this point is GTA 6 and with them not putting any effort into selling it any more I doubt even that will do much for it next year.