Nope. Kinect-based games will save the Xbox One! After all, Microsoft thinks that the Kinect is  part of the " future of gaming", so they must be right!

By "saving" i believe he is talking in regards to the X1's rather awful weekly sales.

So the main reason for Xbox selling so low compared to PS2 was the controller? Cuz thats the only reason u gave. Also how many of the 25m+ PS3 owners in America said that? Im not trying to sound rude but u totally just made that up.

PS3 has outsold 360 in Japan+Europe+Others by 20m and growing, without the 1-1.5 year headstart and significant price advantage the gap would be much larger in these regions. PS4 is $100 cheaper and in general a stronger brand in these regions, we can probably expect a 30-40m lead for PS4 in Japan+Europe+Others.

America is literally the only major region that kept the contest close, 360 has almost a 20m lead here which almost cancels out the PS3 lead in every other region. The thing u have to consider is that us Americans are not loyal to brands at all when it comes to consoles. 2nd gen was dominated by Atari, 3rd gen by Nintendo, 4th gen was a battle between Nintendo/Sega, 5th/6th gen Sony dominated and 7th gen Nintendo dominated the first half with Microsoft dominating the second half. Just because 360 did extremely well in America does not mean One will.

What caused 360 to do so well compared to PS3 in America? Headstart/price/multiplats/online/Kinect. For the first few years 360 had a $200 price advantage, the best versions of mulitplats with many of them releasing earlier, Xbox Live was much superior to PSN. If u look at the yearly sales, in 2009 PS3 came very close to 360 in this region. This just so happens to be the year PS3 finally hit $299 and was within the 360 price range and mulitplats/online were starting to catch up, this also happens to be the year 360 was down year over year. The following year Kinect was released giving 360 a huge boost for the next 2 years, without Kinect its likely sales would have continued to drop.

This gen neither has a headstart, PS4 Is cheaper with the best multiplats, there is no huge online advantage for either and Kinect no longer has that casual appeal. PS4 is currently selling much better in America and there is currently nothing that shows this will change. Xbox exclusives like wont do the trick. Halo is by far the biggest Xbox exclusive and the best selling title on 360 saw a 1 million increase over the best selling Halo on the original Xbox despite 360 having triple the install base. One can be competitive In this region but PS4 will likely edge It out.

All in all unless Microsoft comes up with a big game changer we are probably looking at a 30-50 million lead for PS4, which would One in a distant 2nd.

Price cuts will save the Xbox One, not a single game.

Did Halo save the og Xbox 1? Halo will still sell multi million copies but like CoD I think both franchises have peaked. I didnt hear good things about Halo 4 from the Halo community, they say 343i did awful decisions with the game and the daily population stats prove it is almost abandoned:
http://halocharts.com/2013/playlists_halo4.php

From Europe and rest of the world. Here Gran Turismo is up there with GTA and CoD. Halo isn't that big outside the US.

Gran Turismo 1-5: 29.36 mill = 5.87 mill on avg.

Halo 1-4 + Reach + ODST: 14.13 mill = 2.36 mill on avg. (2.41 on avg. without Reach and ODST)

You do understand that is the daily peak, not daily uniques. Hence, there might be a couple hundred thousand people playing every 24 hours. On top of that, you're ignoring Halo 3 and Reach still have a pretty healthy online population.

Halo 4 is great, it sold really well, and its still one of the most popular online games on a console.

I like that MS is open about Halo's population. But I hate that Sony fans keep using it to prove the series is dead.

If Uncharted and Killzone would simply show their population the Halo numbers would look amazing in comparison.

Xbox One doesn't need saving. It is the 2nd fastest selling console in history and approaching 4 million sales after only 3 months is great. Did the 360 and PS3 need saving when they got off to much slower starts?

Save the Xbox One from what exactly?

Not being the number one selling console of a generation is the the equivalent of death?

If you look at the Xbox One sales numbers by themselves there great and its only by comparison to the PS4's Amazing numbers that they start to come up short.

It's so weird seeing how ill-informed so many people on this site are considering the sales/popularity of video games are the main reasons to come to this site over others.

1. Halo is a much bigger franchise than GT even if most of its sales come from the US. It doesn't depend on bundling to sell 10m+, only GT3 would've achieved such sales without bundling.

2. People point to Halo 4 saying it didn't help the series maintain high public interest or whatever, the last time I checked it sold around 9m at retail (with very little bundling) and has probably sold between 10-11m including digital. It's still huge.

3. No, Halo 5 alone won't save the Xbox One. The only franchise that would be big enough to save a console would be an exclusive GTA game, which will never happen.

4. How can we say the Xbox One needs saving already? It'll do fine  I think after a price cut and more worthwhile exclusives come along.