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aTokenYeti on 01 July 2023
trunkswd said:

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/microsoft-at-big-festival-says-xbox-series-x-s-is-at-21m-xbox-one-58m.1764/#post-173895

Btw Ampere adjusted their Xbox Series estimates up by about a million and they pretty much match the VGChartz estimates. Less than a 1% difference between the 2 in March.

Ampere analyst: "We upgraded our sell-through estimates for end of 2022 previously. It is 19.5m. 21.1m end of March."

Glad to see ampere admit a mistake and adjust accordingly 



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Farsala on 01 July 2023
gtotheunit91 said:

When it came to the discourse online, you’d think the Xbox One sold as much as the Dreamcast or Wii U lol. A huge downgrade compared to the 360 of course, but with how dreadful the Xbox One started the generation, that is a respectable turnaround.

And that’s with a minimum number of what I would consider must have exclusives. Even with Series consoles having only a few notable exclusives up to this point, 20+ million is a pretty good start all things considered after just 2 years. Definitely being carried by Game Pass though lol.

Now that Series X is finally getting its production problems sorted out just in time for the release of Starfield, by far Xbox’s biggest exclusive since the 360, things are finally lining up. Already 4 known exclusives for 2024 and that will only continue to grow. If Xbox’s first party releases are consistent in quality, Series consoles should be able to reach, if not succeed, the 360.

XB1 did great early on because of games. It was the latter years where things fell off due to games.



CaptainExplosion on 01 July 2023

Series X/S numbers don't look too bad, but still underwhelming. Another reason they should have been better handling Rare all these years.



SvennoJ on 01 July 2023

Ehh, though for a second that we would get the split between Series S and Series X, but it's Series and XOne :/

It's what happens when you make everything available on PC as the latest MAU numbers have XBox at 120M.
Seems like most XBox players are on PC nowadays.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-monthly-active-users-hit-a-record-120-million/
That's 1.5x more than XOne and Series sales combined.

Plus MS says Playstation has double the MAU of XBox consoles
https://exputer.com/news/playstation-double-maus-xbox-microsoft/
In the CMA report, Microsoft said that PlayStation has double the MAUs of Xbox.
Sony reported PlayStation had 112 million active users last quarter, which most probably puts Xbox at 50-55 million.
PlayStation also has the highest market share in hardware and console install base globally, while Xbox is last in both.

That would put over half of XBox users on PC unless MS is doing something fancy with number reporting.
It makes sense, GP on PC is cheaper and no fee for multiplayer.



IcaroRibeiro on 01 July 2023
CaptainExplosion said:

Series X/S numbers don't look too bad, but still underwhelming. Another reason they should have been better handling Rare all these years.

I think the sales are good, but they are losing steam fast. Last month VG Charts estimated only ~329k sales WW combined with all regions, this is less than PS5 and Switch are doing in America, Europe, and Asia

PS5 is getting many huge back-to-back hits, and MS, as always, is surviving from third parties that are also released in both PCs and PS5. If Starfield doesn't shake things a bit, there is no hope for MS in the foreseeable future, Series will likely cap on 50-65 million copies sold range and they need to try it again next gen



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Barozi on 01 July 2023
SvennoJ said:

Ehh, though for a second that we would get the split between Series S and Series X, but it's Series and XOne :/

It's what happens when you make everything available on PC as the latest MAU numbers have XBox at 120M.
Seems like most XBox players are on PC nowadays.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-monthly-active-users-hit-a-record-120-million/
That's 1.5x more than XOne and Series sales combined.

Plus MS says Playstation has double the MAU of XBox consoles
https://exputer.com/news/playstation-double-maus-xbox-microsoft/
In the CMA report, Microsoft said that PlayStation has double the MAUs of Xbox.
Sony reported PlayStation had 112 million active users last quarter, which most probably puts Xbox at 50-55 million.
PlayStation also has the highest market share in hardware and console install base globally, while Xbox is last in both.

That would put over half of XBox users on PC unless MS is doing something fancy with number reporting.
It makes sense, GP on PC is cheaper and no fee for multiplayer.

You're forgetting mobile, Switch and PS users. For example:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/realms/minecraft-and-microsoft-accounts



SvennoJ on 01 July 2023
Barozi said:
SvennoJ said:

Ehh, though for a second that we would get the split between Series S and Series X, but it's Series and XOne :/

It's what happens when you make everything available on PC as the latest MAU numbers have XBox at 120M.
Seems like most XBox players are on PC nowadays.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-monthly-active-users-hit-a-record-120-million/
That's 1.5x more than XOne and Series sales combined.

Plus MS says Playstation has double the MAU of XBox consoles
https://exputer.com/news/playstation-double-maus-xbox-microsoft/
In the CMA report, Microsoft said that PlayStation has double the MAUs of Xbox.
Sony reported PlayStation had 112 million active users last quarter, which most probably puts Xbox at 50-55 million.
PlayStation also has the highest market share in hardware and console install base globally, while Xbox is last in both.

That would put over half of XBox users on PC unless MS is doing something fancy with number reporting.
It makes sense, GP on PC is cheaper and no fee for multiplayer.

You're forgetting mobile, Switch and PS users. For example:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/realms/minecraft-and-microsoft-accounts

Ahh yes, Minecraft migrated to MS accounts a couple years ago. I forgot. So over half of XBox players don't play on the MS console. Which is MS' goal anyway, play anywhere as long as it's under an MS / XBox account.



trunkswd on 01 July 2023
aTokenYeti said:
trunkswd said:

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/microsoft-at-big-festival-says-xbox-series-x-s-is-at-21m-xbox-one-58m.1764/#post-173895

Btw Ampere adjusted their Xbox Series estimates up by about a million and they pretty much match the VGChartz estimates. Less than a 1% difference between the 2 in March.

Ampere analyst: "We upgraded our sell-through estimates for end of 2022 previously. It is 19.5m. 21.1m end of March."

Glad to see ampere admit a mistake and adjust accordingly 

Yes, agreed. At the end of the day Ampere and VGChartz figure are estimates based on available data then extrapolating to worldwide figures. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

-Adonis- on 01 July 2023
Barozi said:
SvennoJ said:

Ehh, though for a second that we would get the split between Series S and Series X, but it's Series and XOne :/

It's what happens when you make everything available on PC as the latest MAU numbers have XBox at 120M.
Seems like most XBox players are on PC nowadays.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-monthly-active-users-hit-a-record-120-million/
That's 1.5x more than XOne and Series sales combined.

Plus MS says Playstation has double the MAU of XBox consoles
https://exputer.com/news/playstation-double-maus-xbox-microsoft/
In the CMA report, Microsoft said that PlayStation has double the MAUs of Xbox.
Sony reported PlayStation had 112 million active users last quarter, which most probably puts Xbox at 50-55 million.
PlayStation also has the highest market share in hardware and console install base globally, while Xbox is last in both.

That would put over half of XBox users on PC unless MS is doing something fancy with number reporting.
It makes sense, GP on PC is cheaper and no fee for multiplayer.

You're forgetting mobile, Switch and PS users. For example:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/realms/minecraft-and-microsoft-accounts

I also forgot about that.



trunkswd on 01 July 2023
-Adonis- said:
Barozi said:

You're forgetting mobile, Switch and PS users. For example:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/realms/minecraft-and-microsoft-accounts

I also forgot about that.

Yeah Minecraft is a a big percent of Microsoft's monthly active users. The marketplace brings in big money for Microsoft and the creators of the content that is available for purchase. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.