How much will the Xbox Series sell in 2026 ?

[Norion]

Kyuu said:

Norion said:

2025 is looking to be about 2.5m so it should end up selling somewhere between 1-1.5m this year. There is GTA 6 assuming no more delays but it'll likely get yet another price increase due to the RAM issue so I'll play it safe and say 1.2-1.3m for about a 50% decline YoY. Though the Xbox Series has been consistently overestimated for a good while so it wouldn't really surprise me that much if it fails to even reach 1m. In general I dunno why someone would buy one over a PS5 to plays games on at this point since that console has much better value not only being cheaper but also getting all the first party Xbox games now.

Most Xbox gamers are (or at least were) GamePass subscribers, and most GamePass subscribers are Xbox gamers. This probably remains Xbox's main selling point over Playstation. And millions of people will just pick the brand they're more familiar with regardless of quality or reputation.

I would've said that GP was the one big advantage left before but then the big price increase happened so I dunno why someone would decide to get an Xbox for that now but not when it was way cheaper alongside the console itself being cheaper. The value of GP isn't great any more really. The latter part is why the next Xbox will get still get any notable level of sales at all but for the current gen there won't exactly be that many Xbox One users left at this point but I guess that could account for some amount of its sales this year. A small amount of Forza Horizon fans still playing FH5 on the Xbox One might decide to get an Xbox Series instead of waiting longer to play it on a PS5.