I´m surprised I haven´t seen any discussions about these numbers that have just been thrown out out of nowhere.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/why-microsoft-xbox-isnt-as-popular-in-japan-as-sonys-playstation.html

I would like to know their source from where exactly they got that figure because Microsoft stopped updating sales figures for the Xbox One a long time ago.

Its probably pretty close. It's bad, but not wiiu or vita levels of bad.

perhaps they got it directly from Microsoft, i mean are you really surprised that it is undertracked on vgchartz?

And why would Microsoft share that number with CNBC?

Daniel Ahmad mentioned that Xbox was at ~41M at the end of 2018. There's just no chance that Xbox has sold 6 million units so far this year. So it's definately not undertracked on VGchartz either.

Probably got their data from some analyst

Its like from PS2 to Ps3 sales. Or DS to 3DS sales. 

Its still a beast when it comes to software sales and that is what really matters since consoles are usually sold at a loss.

VGC plus marketing magic.

It's just a guess. No way to say whether vgc or this is closer. We just know they're probably in the right ballpark because Microsoft don't release figures so sales are low.