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.

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.

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

I'm a bit confused about this statement, the last huge 1st party exclusive from Sony was back in November, and their next one is in October this year; in what world is a 11-months gap considered "back to back".

This, right here, should hopefully end all of the detractors that keep referencing Ampere numbers suggesting that VGChartz is much less accurate. 

I'd hope that would also quell some of the individuals that suggest this site is biased towards Xbox as well (I see this more from other communities such as N4G). Though, unfortunately, a lot of times when people claim things like that they have their own confirmation bias, so this information may not even be considered by them. 

We should get updated 8th gen vs 7th gen article now. They are 175.01M now, vs the 173.22M for the 7th gen.

They just had Final Fantasy released like... last week.  

This, right here, should hopefully end all of the detractors that keep referencing Ampere numbers suggesting that VGChartz is much less accurate. 

I'd hope that would also quell some of the individuals that suggest this site is biased towards Xbox as well (I see this more from other communities such as N4G). Though, unfortunately, a lot of times when people claim things like that they have their own confirmation bias, so this information may not even be considered by them. 

My brother in Christ.. you literally just wrote, "MS, as always, is surviving from third parties".

Considering how close VGC is I wouldn't be surprised if they used VGC as source (they have in the recent past).