Dragon Quest 11 was only really a system seller in Japan, and next week's numbers will be the week that the new higher taxes came in there, halving both Switch and PS4 numbers, though since Switch was selling over 7 times higher than PS4, (and still is after the tax drop) halving is obviously a much bigger drop when you're selling 195k than when you're selling 24k.

some fun comparisons to take away from this week, the Switches Japanese sales almost sold higher than PS4 world wide sales.

And the US sales of the PS4 outsold the Global sales of the Xbox1

I think they perfectly knew it and they have done this to later increase by 2 millions their forecast at January 31th financial report.

Wait, what?

Did you miss the release of Link's Awakening?

With it's domination in Japan being so prominent, it's easy to overlook just how much Switch is killing it in North America at the moment; well over double its closest competitor, and 5 times the Xbone.

How badly the X1 is doing in the States compared to the other 2 machines is a real sign that the name "Xbox" is unlikely to appear on their next machine imo, think they might go full Wiiu>Switch with it and just restart that brand from the ground up with a new look and name to distance themselves from this generations abject failure.

Honestly I still half expect them to got into full moron mode and call Scarlet something like "Xbox One Omega" or some shit.

I don't think the name Xbox is going anywhere. I was going to say stranger things have happened, but among the big players throughout history, but can't think of anything that would match such a drastic re-branding.

Xbox1U

I don't think the "Xbox" name needs to go, but the "Xbox One" branding definitely needs to die, it's become associated with failure and undesirability.