News Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Just 21 Million Xbox Series X and S Consoles

[Admin]

Microsoft's 21m Xbox Series X and S sales pale in comparison to rival numbers.

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[Kamen Rider Blade]

XB1 : PS4 = 58 : 117.2 = 1 : 2.0206896551724137931034482758621
XSX|S : PS5 = 21 : 38.4 = 1 : 1.8285714285714285714285714285714

So MS is doing better than the last generation.

Nintendo is a weird outlier since the Nintendo Switch comes off the failure of the WiiU and straddles two console generations.

 

[10tacle]

So MS is doing better than the last generation. [Against the PS5]

Since the numbers Tom's grabs are up to March of this year, that's debatable since a lot of people just gave up on getting a PS5 between 2021-2022 due to the continued supply/demand issues. The XBX|S could be seen back in stock both in store and online (at MSRP pricing) long before the PS5. In fact, I didn't even get the option to buy my PS5 until last November when finally getting an Amazon Prime invite to do so after many months of waiting (as referenced in the article on supply vs. demand).

Now who are those who gave up? Well just in my little anecdotal world, two of my friend's teenage sons who gave up trying to get one and just decided to build a gaming PC (when GPUs were long back in stock mind you). Neither wanted an Xbox, and based on conversations with them, there were a lot who just gave up on a PS5 between 2021-2022. Now many did eventually get one like I did at some point, but many did NOT.

 

[hotaru251]

MS knows XB is just a prebuilt PC w/ a locked down store.


this is why they stopped really doing exclusives.

those exclusives are why you buy consoles.

just ask Sony.

 

[10tacle]

those exclusives are why you buy consoles. just ask Sony.

Heh. Well there are many who say that's just not true...that nobody buys a console just for the exclusives. I clearly remember when the first XB came out in 2001 and Halo was a launch exclusive (later available on PC). Anyone who denies that didn't help move XB sales is in full denial.

Now on to the Playstation, I chose it due to several exclusives including Gran Turismo, and have had every iteration since the PS2 (and both the original and updated versions each of the PS3 and PS4). Of course Microsoft didn't help themselves when later games like the Halo series were available on PC/Steam.

Now does that mean Sony took sales from the PC/XB gamer? Certainly not. But Sony did lock in their core customer base with each new console with exclusives.

 

[thestryker]

When the consoles all perform about the same exclusivity is definitely what pushes the purchase one way or another for most people. The push that got me to buy my original Xbox was most certainly Halo being made exclusive. At the time I didn't mind it because I didn't have anything other than a Dreamcast and there were several titles I wanted to play.

I still don't mind first party exclusives much though I think Sony is leaving a lot of money on the table by punting PC ports so far out. It's the third party exclusives which I find to be one of, if not, the worst things on gaming right now. It really ramped up during the 360/PS3 era with MS paying for cod exclusivity. Now it basically anything that can be monetized exclusivity wise will be monetized.

I think something people tend to forget is that even though MS "won" the 360 era they didn't really. They won North America and that was pretty much it. Then they had the pile on lead in to the Xbox One launch combined with the extra cost of the kinect and that was the end of that.

Exclusives likely won't bring a lot of people to Xbox at this point because of the way MS treats PC. I know I only got my Xbox One S because it cost $50 more than the cheapest good 4k blu-ray player at the time. I wouldn't be surprised this generation if the gap grew even more. There's a shot if MS times things right with whatever the next generation is due to upgrade cycles and the current stupid cost of video cards.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

XB1 : PS4 = 58 : 117.2 = 1 : 2.0206896551724137931034482758621
XSX|S : PS5 = 21 : 38.4 = 1 : 1.8285714285714285714285714285714

So MS is doing better than the last generation.

Nintendo is a weird outlier since the Nintendo Switch comes off the failure of the WiiU and straddles two console generations.

That math doesn't make sense, Xbox S is no competition for PS5 that's why it's dirt cheap. It's a glorified Nvidia Shield.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That math doesn't make sense, Xbox S is no competition for PS5 that's why it's dirt cheap. It's a glorified Nvidia Shield.

Nobody is stating that the XSS is competitive with the PS5 in terms of hardware power.

But the XSX & XSS are part of the same generation and operate the same games on two different code paths.

So they are part of the same lineage.

MS took a different path for competition by having a gimped Console & a normally powerful Console.

Sony just went with pure power.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter, Sony is still clobbering MS.

Even with XSS & XSX sales combined.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

And those numbers are just fine with Microsoft. They need to look weaker than Nintendo and especially Sony to get their Activision deal passed.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Most of me is surprised Microsoft doesn't just give the consoles away with a 36 month contract to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate ($15/month).

 

[thestryker]

Most of me is surprised Microsoft doesn't just give the consoles away with a 36 month contract to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate ($15/month).

Microsoft is still a public corp so this is the best they're gonna do: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-all-access

 

[Deleted member 431422]

If they made Series S with an optical drive I'd buy it. It'd serve as multimedia device. Games, movies, audio. I don't want to stream. Sometimes I really want to be disconnected from the internet.