It would have to be something as outlandish as MS buying SEGA and doing a Japan only brand reboot where they sell rebadged Xboxes as Sega devices, along with paying Japanese retailers to carry their devices again. 

none of what I’ve described will ever happen though, SEGA wouldn’t sell to MS and I’m not sure MS would be interested in buying. On top of that I’m not sure Sony or Microsoft even care about the Japanese market anymore. 

Basically lol, there's celebrations that Xbox Series has already sold more than XBO lifetime, but then you realise it's still the 2nd worst selling console in Japan of all time launch aligned (at least for the systems we have data for).

Maybe it would be above the Neo Geo Pocket without shortages so that's something lol.

I also find it rather interesting how the original Xbox's sales just declined completely after this point, with only around 39% more sales lifetime after this point, while even the series at the very least doubled.

Its good to have goals it will surely sell another 40k in the next half dozen or so years  hopefully > maybe > fingers crossed, if I was the X box Series I would have  my eye on my grandfathers sales record, but  I'm sure at the next Christmas dinner old  Pops would troll them by pointing out that it took both  grandkids to beat  him and that would start a family argument with the kids saying you were less than a year old and they gave you a pensioner card to use on blue dragon lost  odyssey etc, but then Xbox one would walk in and the grandkids and pops would look at him and start laughing.

Numbers have been updated with the latest week. Notably PS4+XBO has now overtaken PS5+XSX launch aligned as both consoles are losing ground on their respective predecessor over the holidays.

Adjustments have been made to previous weeks since the last update: Switch up by 45k, PS5 up by 31k, XSX down by 59k.

Xbox Series has also been adjusted down by another 90k since my last update ontop of this. This is due to the weekly figures in the data tool currently being incorrect and not lining up with the monthly/yearly figures or the figures posted by Trunks in his thread.

Here are the numbers for all tracked consoles as of 58 weeks on the market:

We are not in a business as usual sales climate with its associated bell curves and other such sales dynamics, while we talk about the gaming negatives stemming from the pandemic, it has also had an impact in the form of extra demand and while this demand in regard to the consoles hardware sales is across the board it has mostly gone unmet, except for the Switch where the sales jumped up by around 6 million in 2020 and pretty much held the line this year, so with this different world who's to say that the pandemic demand that helped drive software sales and hardware demand wouldn't have lead to an unrestrained PS5 having 20 million sales and then when things settled  fallen away.

No updates for 2022 anymore?