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

[curl-6]

Norion said:

curl-6 said:

So true, heck even when I made this thread in April 2024 some people thought it was silly to suggest it wouldn't reach 40 million, now less than two years later even 36 million is looking doubtful.

I was one of those people in fact lol. Back then for it to fail to reach 40m Microsoft would have to no longer do things like significant discounts for the holidays and in general completely give up on trying to sell it which I did not think was a realistic possibility but them announcing 4 ports to the PS5 a couple months earlier should've shown that was actually a realistic scenario.

trunkswd said:

curl-6 said:

So true, heck even when I made this thread in April 2024 some people thought it was silly to suggest it wouldn't reach 40 million, now less than two years later even 36 million is looking doubtful.

At one point the Xbox Series X|S was even the fastest selling Xbox console. Last time this was confirmed was for the end of June 2022. Going into this generation I thought the Xbox Series would have outsold the Xbox One due to all the acquisitions and having far more exclusives than any Xbox generation. Of course this when we thought Halo Infinite was a launch title, Starfield would have made its 2022 release and lived up to its hype, and Elder Scrolls 6 would have released before the next Xbox as an Xbox/PC exclusive. But alas game development is taking years longer now and Xbox is releasing more games on PlayStation and Nintendo.

Xbox as a publisher is bigger than ever, so I don't see them going anywhere even if Xbox hardware becomes more niche selling 10m-20m per generation.

Yeah back in like 2021-2022 I was one of those who expected the Series to outsell the Xbox One as it was off to a better start.

Then the years passed with hardly any big exclusives, underwhelming releases like Redfall and Starfield, then their games coming to PS/Nintendo, and it all fell apart.