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[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

While not openly, Microsoft has finally revealed global Xbox Series X|S sales figures directly for the first time since launch over 21 million. That actually puts Xbox Series in a good position compared to other Xbox's though they need to pick things up a notch to keep it that way.

This also means Xbox One total sales are about 58M maximum. That's not as bad as I was expecting so it did better than it was perceived.

Nearly 50% of Series S users are new. No stats for Series X.

 

[Ronin_7]

I think Ps5 is at 40M or a little above and should be announced soon enough.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

Standalone image outside of Twitter

 

[onQ123]

Also says 79 million all together with Xbox One so we finally get Xbox One numbers 58 million

 

[solidus12]

Really surprised that Xbox One sold more than 58 million consoles with such a lackluster, barren, and dire first-party situation.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Also says 79 million all together with Xbox One so we finally get Xbox One numbers 58 million

58 million for Xbox one is pretty good for that piece of shit.

 

[killatopak]

That last bit is pretty vague. Why not just group S and X users?

 

[Vognerful]

Also says 79 million all together with Xbox One so we finally get Xbox One numbers 58 million

58 million for Xbox one is pretty good for that piece of shit.

They bought it by mistake, thinking they are buying the new one.

 

[adamsapple]

That's a pretty good number.

Also XBO sold much higher than I would have expected as well.

 

[Kilau]

VGChartz furiously updating old “data”.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

Also says 79 million all together with Xbox One so we finally get Xbox One numbers 58 million

Max, depending on how much over Series is.

That's really better than what many were expecting. I'm sure if they weren't in a rush to discontinue the One X and gave on more price cut to One S they probably could have covered that last 2 million to reach 60M. Maybe.

 

[onQ123]

That's a pretty good number.

Also XBO sold much higher than I would have expected as well.

Really? I thought it was well known that they was above 50 million years ago

 

[adamsapple]

Really? I thought it was well known that they was above 50 million years ago

Yeah, the 50 million figure, for the console in itself, seems very high in hindsight.

 

[GigaBowser]

Its not very good for fruggin huuuuuge company like MS they wants much more than being so behind the compeitions

I'm dissapointed Master Chiefs was my role model Starfields looks incredibubble so maaayyybe they can come backabit

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

Really surprised that Xbox One sold more than 58 million consoles with such a lackluster, barren, and dire first-party situation.

I'd say that matches when you think about it. 13-15M of that was in the first year or not far from it, and then Players Unknown came out when they started reversing the consoles reputation with two new models and that game was selling millions late on the consoles life, it may be what saved it in the end from being a sub 40M. It's speculation without yearly sales from 2015-2021 but both those time periods are the only times I recall Xbox putting out press regularly about games sales outside Halo 5.

 

[analog_future]

Not a bad start but the real test is going to be how their sales look in the next 2-3 years, as their acquisitions start to pay off.

 

[kazuyamishima]

21m+ for the Xbox Series is similar to what the Xbone was doing launch aligned, with a better strategy from the former than the latter.

Not too good in my eyes, but legs will be key.

 

[Tsaki]

Yo what? Hopefully it's true since we finally get those numbers. There is no way MS HQ gave the ok for the Brazil branch to publicize the unit sales.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

21m+ for the Xbox Series is similar to what the Xbone was doing launch aligned, with a better strategy from the former than the latter.

Not too good in my eyes, but legs will be key.

Actually, from Q422 onward Xbox One should be tripping backwards. At least until the aligned reveal of the One S for a few months, then it'll decline again.

 

[ZehDon]

21m+ isn't too bad, considering they've had virtually no first party titles, and two of their titles were big high profile disasters.

Really surprised that Xbox One sold more than 58 million consoles with such a lackluster, barren, and dire first-party situation.

The Xbone S is a solid media player, and a terrific cost effective 4K UHD optical player. I imagine that fact isn't lost on a lot of people

 

[Bridges]

Really surprised that Xbox One sold more than 58 million consoles with such a lackluster, barren, and dire first-party situation.

You've got to consider that a lot of people only care about third party games. There is a percentage of people who just wanted a new box that could play the new Batman/Madden/Call of Duty/FIFA/Battlefield etc or just wanted a way to get Fortnite on their TV, and also has the brand recognition from the 360 era.
Clearly not enough to match Sony, but I'm sure there's plenty of people who bought an Xbox that don't even know what the term "1st party" even means.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

You've got to consider that a lot of people only care about third party games. There is a percentage of people who just wanted a new box that could play the new Batman/Madden/Call of Duty/FIFA/Battlefield etc or just wanted a way to get Fortnite on their TV, and also has the brand recognition from the 360 era.
Clearly not enough to match Sony, but I'm sure there's plenty of people who bought an Xbox that don't even know what the term "1st party" even means.

PU Battlegrounds was also the main title people were playing based on Microsoft press releases in the late period, which was console exclusive back then and that was early battle royale craze. Forums didn't view it as an exclusive but the public sure did.

Madden was also extremely Xbox associated at the time, before Madden lost much of its base, and while Fifa sold more on PS4, Xbox for years had exclusive content. I forgot what it was I think it was a few teams and cosmetics or something. Just enough to keep the console relevant in the late years.

That said I was expecting just reaching into 50, but almost getting 60M is more impressive than I thought.

 

[onnextflix5]

21 million and they wonder why gamepass has stagnated lol, u need too sell a lot more consoles for gamepass to succeed. And too do that you a lot more quality exclusive games.

 

[octiny]

21 million and they wonder why gamepass has stagnated lol, u need too sell a lot more consoles for gamepass to succeed. And too do that you a lot more quality exclusive games.

Game Pass itself hasn't stagnated. The PC side is thriving, it's the console side which is slowing down.

Spencer said that while the company is seeing the PC version of Game Pass experience “incredible growth,” the console side of the business is starting to slow.

 

[leo-j]

58 million down from 84 million (Xbox 360) …… and only 21 million nearly half a gen in? They may not even cross 50 million this gen….

 

[mckmas8808]

That's a pretty good number.

Also XBO sold much higher than I would have expected as well.

Both are decent to bad numbers. I feel like people are judging Xbox on a curve nowadays.

 

[CatLady]

21m+ isn't too bad, considering they've had virtually no first party titles, and two of their titles were big high profile disasters.

The Xbone S is a solid media player, and a terrific cost effective 4K UHD optical player. I imagine that fact isn't lost on a lot of people

Obviously one of them is Redfall, but I must be going senile, what was the other disaster?

 

[bender]

Obviously one of them is Redfall, but I must be going senile, what was the other disaster?

 

[Clintizzle]

 

[ZehDon]

Obviously one of them is Redfall, but I must be going senile, what was the other disaster?

That would be Halo Infinite. Its embarrassing showing and following delay left the Series consoles to launch without a game. Then it finally launched and did... fine, but the multiplayer served as an ongoing embarrassment for Microsoft that perpetuated the narrative that eventually Redfall caused to bubble over. It also caused the gutting of its developer, but that's a different topic.

 

[Aika'svyse]

Truth is Xbox One turned into a great console.

Also this clearly shows some people were way wrong, This thread makes this one interesting.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ampe...re-availability.1653604/page-2#post-267671276

 

[StereoVsn]

58 million down from 84 million (Xbox 360) …… and only 21 million nearly half a gen in? They may not even cross 50 million this gen….

I think this will depend on how good the exclusives will be front he current studios and if they will be allowed to buy Activision.

If Starfield, next Fable, etc will all be amazing, Xbox may sell well, at least relatively speaking. Otherwise not so much.

 

[thismeinteil]

58 million down from 84 million (Xbox 360) …… and only 21 million nearly half a gen in? They may not even cross 50 million this gen….

And in a year where it should be peaking, it's down YOY.

 

[mrmustard]

21m+ for the Xbox Series is similar to what the Xbone was doing launch aligned, with a better strategy from the former than the latter.

Not too good in my eyes, but legs will be key.

I wouldn't call it a better strategy for selling more consoles if everybody knows right before the launch that all the games will also launch day1 on pc or that you can stream them from your smartphone, tablet, tv and mnay more. That's actually the opposite.

 

[kazuyamishima]

I wouldn't call it a better strategy for selling more consoles if everybody knows right before the launch that all the games will also launch day1 on pc or that you can stream them from your smartphone, tablet, tv and mnay more. That's actually the opposite.

I saw the opposite, lot of people praising the Series S, the price of both, The value of Gamepass, Day one edition games, etc.

A lot of people said that MS would give PS a run for their money, but it seems the narrative already changed.

 

[mrmustard]

I saw the opposite, lot of people praising the Series S, the price of both, The value of Gamepass, Day one edition games, etc.

A lot of people said that MS would give PS a run for their money, but it seems the narrative already changed.

The Series S is a good console, but if you want to sell it, don't put your shit on countless other devices. They don't even gave their own customers a reason to upgrade, because you can also stream Series games from Xbox One. Without day1 releases and xCloud they would have a couple of million more sales, that's for sure.

I think Ps5 is at 40M or a little above and should be announced soon enough.

VGChartz was pretty accurate on Xbox:

PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 35,942,643
Xbox Series X|S Total Sales: 21,351,543

 

[Brucey]

Truth is Xbox One turned into a great console.

Also this clearly shows some people were way wrong, This thread makes this one interesting.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/ampe...re-availability.1653604/page-2#post-267671276

That thread seemed to show Xbox series at ~18.5 million at end of 2022. To be at 21+ million in June 2023 seems pretty slow to be honest.

 

[Robb]

58M XBO? That’s about 58M too many.

 

[TLZ]

I can't believe we finally have Xbox One numbers.

 

[twilo99]

In terms of value/price ratio I think the xss is their best product since they entered the game.. its an awesome machine at that price point.

I am curious to see some gamepass numbers for PC

 

[mrmustard]

In terms of value/price ratio I think the xss is their best product since they entered the game.. its an awesome machine at that price point.

I am curious to see some gamepass numbers for PC

I don't think the price is great right now. 349 for the 1TB is insanely high and 260 for the 500GB is too much too, because prices were already down to 199 Euros last year for a few weeks.

 

[Brucey]

And in a year where it should be peaking, it's down YOY.

From a post in that other thread: if those potential Greenberg quoted numbers are correct, they've sold about 8 million units in the last 14 months assuming they've gone from 14.87M to 21.87M?

 

[Valkyria]

Agree. Xbox One S was a much better deal. Disc drive, a little upgrade of specs and the full experience of Xbox One at the time.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I think series will reach 65 to 70 Mill when all Is said and done.

I always said 70 million would be good for them this time.

 

[Helghan]

21M is pretty good with the supply constraint and the lack of great first party content. If they are finally able to deliver a steady streak of great games, I can see them reach 80M by the end of the generation

 

[Artistic]

That Series S stat is pretty impressive.

 

[Heisenberg007]

My post in another thread before this Brazil report was made public.

Off the top of my head, I think Xbox Series X|S would be between 22-23 million as of now.

 

[Heisenberg007]

VGChartz was pretty accurate on Xbox:

PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 35,942,643
Xbox Series X|S Total Sales: 21,351,543

VGChartz was not accurate. What you're seeing is updated data that they corrected after other (more reliable) sources shared significantly different data.

They were advertising more than 20 million at the start of December 2022.



If Xbox is now at 21 million, does this mean that Microsoft has sold only 1 million units in the last 7 months? That's obviously incorrect.

 

[Kataploom]

They bought it by mistake, thinking they are buying the new one.

People react with funny emoji, but I've literally seen Facebook marketplace posts where they call Xbox One an Xbox Series S and viceversa

 

[Gudji]

58 million for Xbox one is pretty good for that piece of shit.

Most expensive piece of shit I ever had.