1000% increase but only 71% of the market. Not very high sales overall then.

Anyway, MS deserve it. Sony have been so lazy for so long and Microsoft have released a game recently. Now that X1 has won a week, things are really looking up, and competition is good for everyone

Wow, that's some huge numbers

For sales to rise 1000% (or close to it) they have to be pretty low numbers surely to not make that an inconceivably large number of sales, say if there had been 10,000 sales in the previous week that would mean sales going up to 110,000 which would be massive, I mean the last week of sales recorded for EU here on VGchartz is almost 22k so if that was mostly UK sales would be seeing the % increase here pushing it up close to 1/4 of a million units of the Xbox sold or 1/89th of its total sales to date.

I wouldn't mind seeing actual numbers of the console sold rather than a % as StarOcean (somewhat jokingly) put it above a % without a related number to go with it is meaningless.

lol then how many dozens of millions of sales should we slash off of the PS2's final count? :p

It's more likely around 3k to 30k or thereabouts. The PS4 the week before had outsold it nearly 3 to 1 and was down 22% from this week, in which it was down 66% year over year. The percentage looks great, but the actual numbers are probably depressingly low for the market as a whole. 

That's really impressive! Congrats Microsoft!
But be prepared for Playstation 4 Pro which is going to be huge these holidays!!! ;)

It is a large % increase but it wouldn't be that surprising if people had been holding off on buying the hardware revision in the weeks leading up to the launch of the S (would be silly not to) so then using a % makes the figure look even more impressive than it would be naturally.

A simple example of this would be if the machine sold 100 units in the weeks before the S was to arrive, but in the immediate week before launch half those people held off on their purchase reducing that week to 50 units, then the following week if 200 people buy the system it would appear that sales have increased because of the launch by a factor of 4 or to 200% what it was the previous week, but if you actually consider the 50 people who didn't buy the system in the previous week then the actual increase of sales because of the S model would be 50 (since 50 of that 200 would have happened the previous week if the system was not launching) So yeah what should be an increase of 50% in sales becomes 200% because of the nature of customers not buying a previous model before the launch of it's successor.

XBO may be 989% up in weekly sales, but is only 76% up YOY that week... this really mean that the lasts weeks was selling nothing, and will most likely back down YOY soon.

Also PS4 down YOY by 66%... that's super bomba.

Honestly Xbox should be grateful for any success they have with the slim given they announced the Scorpio... I know I'm awaiting the Scorpio, at least.

Selling the interim console with the next one announced is often very difficult, so this is definitely a good sign for them.

The S model was the one I was waiting for. And its exactly what I was hoping for. Probably the best console MS has ever made. It gives me hope for what Scorpio will be able to do.