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Forums - Sales Discussion - Xbox Series X|S Sales Top 12 Million - Global Hardware Jan 9-15

Holidays are over. I guess these numbers are basically the new baseline for each system.



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Xbox Series S/X doing 66% lifetime of PS5 numbers so far.

Xbox One had 43.26% lifetime of PS4 numbers.

As it stands they've improved market share (just between those two traditional consoles) by 22.74% gen over gen. Impressive start!



Dulfite said:

Xbox Series S/X doing 66% lifetime of PS5 numbers so far.

Xbox One had 43.26% lifetime of PS4 numbers.

As it stands they've improved market share (just between those two traditional consoles) by 22.74% gen over gen. Impressive start!

Yes and long term this should only improve. If Xbox can still relatively close through the first 3 quarters of 2022 I think they will be in outstanding position for the remainder of the generation. 



Mar1217 said:
Dulfite said:

Xbox Series S/X doing 66% lifetime of PS5 numbers so far.

Xbox One had 43.26% lifetime of PS4 numbers.

As it stands they've improved market share (just between those two traditional consoles) by 22.74% gen over gen. Impressive start!

Theorically, if this ratio would hypothetically maintain itself for the rest of the generation + the total sales of these consoles combine equal about the same from what it did last gen, there might be a chance none of these two consoles goes on to achieve the 100M milestone

This just seems so hard to believe though. Not saying you are wrong, but it almost feels like Sony’s first party output would have to fall off a cliff after 2022 for this to happen 



Pretty good numbers all around, I think Sony is aiming to sell 10 to 12 million units before the start of November and try to sell as many units as they can produce during the holidays.



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aTokenYeti said:
Mar1217 said:

Theorically, if this ratio would hypothetically maintain itself for the rest of the generation + the total sales of these consoles combine equal about the same from what it did last gen, there might be a chance none of these two consoles goes on to achieve the 100M milestone

This just seems so hard to believe though. Not saying you are wrong, but it almost feels like Sony’s first party output would have to fall off a cliff after 2022 for this to happen 

Or MS's first party output will ramp up, which is pretty much guaranteed at this point. With so many first party studios (even without A/B yet) there is no excuse for them to not have first party games released throughout the year now.



darthv72 said:
aTokenYeti said:

This just seems so hard to believe though. Not saying you are wrong, but it almost feels like Sony’s first party output would have to fall off a cliff after 2022 for this to happen 

Or MS's first party output will ramp up, which is pretty much guaranteed at this point. With so many first party studios (even without A/B yet) there is no excuse for them to not have first party games released throughout the year now.

Q4 2022 and onwards should be a pretty exciting time for Microsoft first party. I think we see a huge amount of unannounced stuff at Microsoft’s summer 2022 conference (they will still have one despite E3 being gone) 



Yea Microsoft will be way bigger this gen than they were in the previous. They are already not so far behind and their acquisitions will only start to matter in the second half of the gen. When games like Elderscrolls, D4, Overwatch 2 etc gets exclusivity on Xbox, that will be a hard hit on Playstation. The PS4 won't top 120 millions and was literally ALONE the whole generation. Nintendo flopped and microsoft did mistakes after mistakes. Sony is already doing some mistakes and competition is a lot stronger now, feel like PS5 not reaching 100 millions is not farfetched. It will still be a really successful console no matter what though.



aTokenYeti said:
Mar1217 said:

Theorically, if this ratio would hypothetically maintain itself for the rest of the generation + the total sales of these consoles combine equal about the same from what it did last gen, there might be a chance none of these two consoles goes on to achieve the 100M milestone

This just seems so hard to believe though. Not saying you are wrong, but it almost feels like Sony’s first party output would have to fall off a cliff after 2022 for this to happen 

Hasn't it already, at least in terms of quantity? Count for new games (remakes allowed, remasters not, neither our exclusive third party games, nor digital only games as I'm trying to compare quantity output of bigger games):

PS4 2013 - 2 retail games

PS4 2014 - 5 retail games

PS4 2015 - 6 retail games

PS4 2016 - 6 retail games

PS4 2017 - 9 retail games

PS4 2018 - 6 retail games

PS4 2019 - 5 retail games

PS4 2020 - 6.5 (Miles Morales)

PS4 Average - 4.96 games a year

PS5 2020 - 2.5 (Miles Morales)

PS5 2021 - 4

PS5 Average (so far) - 3.25 games per year.

We know Sony will pick it up as history proves, but even comparing 2013/2014 to 2020/2021, PS4 averaged 3.5 games per year (or .25 more a year) than PS5 so far.

List Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sony_Interactive_Entertainment_video_games#2020_2



trunkswd said:

The Switch surpassed the PS1 this week. An article on this milestone will be live later today.