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Forums - Sales Discussion - Will Xbox Series X/S make it to 40 million?

 

Will it reach 40 million?

Yes it will 70 60.87%
 
No, it will fall short 45 39.13%
 
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IcaroRibeiro on 02 November 2024
DroidKnight said:

Xbox did not have a stellar opening this generation. Â It doesn't appear that it has any intention of ending it that way. .

 

It was a excellent opening actually. Thanks to lack of PS5 stock Xbox Series S sold a lot. People even thought this was going to be a more competitive generation 

Sony reported 30% of PS5 owners are new to Playstation. I think they a fair share must be Xbox crowd: https://www.gamesradar.com/almost-a-third-of-ps5-owners-skipped-the-ps4-generation-sony-says/

Xbox userbase is migrating to PC, it's a very straightforward step. For PS4 owners it's not so easy because you lose access to your PS4 backlog going for PC

Sony is also losing a lot of players to PC this generation, but Xbox players are likely making up for the users they are losing 

This generation will see a drop in console sales. PS5 will decrease 10-15 million compared to PS4 (even with a longer generation), Xbox will decline ~10 million too I think



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EricHiggin on 02 November 2024
XtremeBG said:
DroidKnight said:

30 million Xbox gamers still haven't upgraded yet, 10 million more of that crowd purchasing a Series console isn't farfetched (only a 3rd). Looking at the Playstation numbers tells me they are not migrating that direction. I'm still under the belief that games move hardware and not everyone is willing to adopt PC yet.

Given the way worse generation we are now in in terms of software compare to the previous ones, I really wonder how PS5 is almost on PS4 level sales. So I won't be surprised if it is thanks to Xbox gamers migrating to PS. So we can't know that for sure.

I'd usually be able to say my friends and I are part of those sales, but this gen is the first time that none of us have bought in yet. Usually we would've moved on by now, but due to the pricing as well as lack of new enticing PS5 only games, we've remained on PS4. Based on PS5 Slim and Pro pricing, as well as lack of near future games, it's looking like we'll all probably be waiting yet another year. It's not because we can't afford it either. 

Most of the reason PS5 is neck and neck with PS4 is because of new customers and migrating (XB) gamers. When PS5 finally gets an official price cut, or steadily launches some worthy PS5 only blockbusters, sales are going to surge again because that's when PS4 owners will start to move on, en masse.