But it's not ahead in Japan! MS should make another Idolm@ster exclusive for the One.

It is pretty staggering for both Sony and Microsoft how well out of the gate their consoles are performing compared to previous generation.

The big question in coming years is if either or both are front loaded or will continue to out preform predecessors.

Xbone is doing well but it can compete with Ps4

So it's official Xbox one is dead because it will never pass the 360 Globally in Japan :)

Did 360 have any massive price drops in it's first year?

/Just curious

Yay to fire sales!

360 Was sold for $300/$400 and was supply constrained for the first 6 months(part of why it is tracking higher). It didnt get its first cut til 1.5 years later though the 20GB/$400 sku was given a larger 60GB HDD during that time period. We can only assume that there was some sort of game giveaway bundle the first Christmas though.

People said that when the X1 was $399. Few really expected them to cut the price by $50, then another $30 for BF and then give $50 credit during December (this all on top of the free games through bundles and promotions). That's not to say the X1 wouldn't still be ahead without these offers, but it's pretty one sided to state it's ahead "despite [xyz]", and then not acknowledge everything MS have had to do to secure their current position.

It won't even outsell orinal xbox

Where's that graph that shows launch vs. sales for the following year (through September or October). Raw number wise, yes, XBone is ahead of 360 (thanks to its extremely front loaded launch compared to subsequent sales). Trend wise, it's below.

360 had 1.17M as of Dec 31, 2005, then had 7.99M at the end of Dec 2006. Selling 6.82M in 2006. XBone had 3.2M at launch and is at 9.4M now, so 6.2M sold so far for 2014. But it's only there after repeatedly dropping the price and packing in games for pretty much the entire year. To make that point stick, the 360 was sold nearly 5.8x its launch for 2006. XBone did less than 2x its launch for 2014.  But, I guess, on paper, I can't take away from the XBone. It will get passed 10M, so if that's all anyone wants to look at, be my guest. But, as Zekkyou said, it's one sided to state that it's ahead and just ignore the drastic measures MS had to do to get there. Especially when 360 did none of that and was supply constrained for its launch period. If looking at things in black and white makes you happy, I'm in no position to take that away from you