Thank you, that’s the data I want to see. Gen over gen improvement. Better then every Xbox before, and while being supply constrained. Even with Xbox games on PC day 1 the console is still tracking well by comparison. 

Considering they launched with essentially Gears Tactics and EA Play being added to Game Pass, this bodes very well for the gen. Positive PR, competitive pricing and this is before their massive wave of 1st party coming. Very exciting to see what happens this fall. 

Europe: Series X and S vs Xbox One (launch aligned)

Week 1 - 345k vs 311k
Week 2 - 90k vs 91k
Week 3 - 83k vs 78k
Week 4 - 83k vs 83k
Week 5 - 79k vs 82k
Week 6 - 94k vs 65k
Week 7 - 85k vs 41k
Week 8 - 52k vs 25k
Week 9 - 29k vs 20k
Week 10 - 25k vs 17k
Week 11 - 30k vs 16k
Week 12 - 27k vs 15k
Week 13 - 27k vs 13k

After the holiday season, the Series X and S are selling around double what the Xbox One was in 2014. 

Switch with the hottest 5-week start of any VGC tracked system so far.  Notably, VGC USA JAN 2021 is at 381K, which was the hard lower limit for the NPD range (381K - 466K).  Good chance there's 20-40K to pick up there if NPD JAN 2021 ever leaks.

Yeah, that's seomthing we don't take into account but it's important. When the Xbox One launched, all of its games were assumed to be launching only on it - just like with the Xbox and the 360 - , which surely made some people buy the Xbox One at first instead of building a PC or whatever, but with the Series X and S the market knows right from the start that its games will be on PC too and even on phones and Smart TVs via xCloud. But even with that, the Series X and S are still selling much better than the Xbox One. I think that's actually very impressive, because it means these two consoles are attracting new users to the Xbox console ecosystem. This is probably caused by a combo of launching in more countries, having Xbox All Access in 12 countries, Game Pass, the low price of the Series S and the acquisition of Bethesda.

I'm pretty sure it is directly linked to covid restrictions.

I really don't think it is, everyone can buy a console now, stores and transporation centers are open, it's not like in March or April where shops and transportation centers were going to close and people went to buy consoles out of panic of not being able to buy one later. I don't think the people who are buying the Series X and S are the same casual players or retired players that bought a cheap 150-200 dollars PS4 or Xbox One in March or April just to have some entertainment. Early adopters always know very well what they are buying and are interested in the product. Same with PS5. Obviously Covid helps both in terms of sales but I don't think that alone explains neither's growth at all.

While it is fun to compare the numbers, it's worth noting that there's only so much we can extrapolate in terms of early sales to long term sales.

The Wii U initially sold faster than PS3 and 360 for instance.

I know it takes time to make a new graph but I was wondering when PS5 and XBS will be added to the graph on the front page.