Seriously… How Did Xbox Last This Long?

[Leynos]

CaptainExplosion said:

curl-6 said:

The market was simply far bigger in the 6th-9th gen than in the days of the Atari 2600 or Megadrive though; in the 2nd gen, the winning console of the generation sold 30m, while in the 4th gen the winner sold 49m, while at the same time that the OG Xbox sold 24m, the PS2 sold over 155m.

OG Xbox was outsold 8:1 by its primary competitor, Xbox One was outsold around 2:1, and the Series is on track to be outsold by like 4:1. Only 360 was actually competitive, and even then it finished in 3rd place behind Wii and PS3.

It's like Xbox has more in common than I thought with Sega. The Master System didn't really do anything special, but the Genesis sold better, then the Saturn flopped, and then the DreamCast flopped harder. -_-

Dreamcast did not flop harder, SEGA was just broke at that point and had been since before DC existed but by the time they launched DC, SEGA was so far in the red they were near going out of business. DC sold a little better than Saturn in less time. It took the death of their president donating all his money to keep the company afloat. That kept them alive long enough to merge with Sammy a couple years later.