That is badass! I love it!

Not going to happen. Late 2019 at the earliest.

Realistically speaking by this point XBO should be at a minimum of 35m units sold.

The Switch is selling extremely well and should be over 15m sold.

That's a 20m gap, which means Switch has to sell 20m units in the next 9 months while the XBO sell 0, which isn't going to happen.

That being said there is a strong chance the Switch could sell 20m units, but the XBO will go on to sell a minimum of 6m units (more than likely closer to its average 8m, with a $199 permanent price drop). Which means the Switch will still be 6m behind, and a best case scenario surpass XBO Summer 2019.

I guess the mighty X wasn't that...mighty afterall.

@above... true, units sold is a hot topic but why not let that be discussed in articles that focus on that?

This one is about $$ in general and all companies get profits from hardware / software / services. MS may not sell the most units but they still make $$ and Nintendo is looking to make more $$ by doing the same things as MS. Nintendo should be adding in their online service this year, and that revenue adds to the overall $$ for the year.

@darthv72 - "This is about $$ made in general for the year, not units sold. Just so people understand."

You are 100% correct (and for that I, for one, will give you a thumbs up)...

Having said that, the $$ made in general (console sales, game content & services combined) is more important than units sold.

Which generally equates to units sold as to make the money you have to shift the units... or just continue to sell Xbox live which Microsoft are looks like the people are getting bored of yearly subscriptions for yearly churned games 😱🙌🏻
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@Ros... "Which generally equates to units sold as to make the money you have to shift the units."

That isnt true. Units sold only amount to a small percentage of revenue because of the hardware costs involved. Even sold at a profit it is less revenue percentage than what a piece of software or membership amounts to. It's been like that for generations where more $$ is made from software than hardware. The only platform that was initially sold for profit was the 3DO and look how that turned out. The 3DO company made $$ off of software sales and licensing while the companies that made 3DO units (panasonic, goldstar, etc) sold systems at crazy high prices to recoup their investment costs.

Basically, MS, Sony and Nintendo make the bulk of their $$ from the sales of software, licensing and services while hardware bring up the rest.

Average the Xbox on S $250, and the Xbox one X $500 cost out, and it looks like the analyst has the console sold of each. So they should have enough information to figure out that there will be enough consoles of the SWITCH to surpass the xbox one family they are not mathematically stupid.

Sony did so well because of the bitter taste of bad policies from MS's initial reveal. It didnt matter if they were reversed before launch... those who made up their minds werent going to change.

XBO did have more AAA games during the first couple of years than PS4 but it was not enough to get people to get on board. Regardless of all the right moves MS has made over the years you will still have those who just dont care.

Buddy at some point you need to start asking Microsoft what they're doing because as much as I might like Capcom or Konami based on what they've done well , I can't sit idly by while they make just a ridiculous series of mistakes is not saying you hate the company but it is simply saying that you like the publisher enough to want them to change and do better.

So of course I like Resident Evil it's actually ironically why I'm going to talk so much crap about Resident Evil 5 and 6 because it's not the direction I want the series to go of course I'm going to question with the publisher does because I want them to do better that doesn't mean I hate Capcom that doesn't mean I want them to fail and trying to bring up another publisher is not going to solve another Publishers problems.

I'm sorry but you guys are only doing this because you guys bought a piece of hardware as an investment with a belief it was going to get a bunch of Triple A new intellectual property, you made a mistake you backed the wrong horse and now you're trying to find any possible way to defend these actions to not admit some sort of buyer's remorse.

I think it's easier for gamers to admit it publisher made a mistake when they also didn't have to spend a couple hundred dollars with a damn system in the first place with the belief of only getting that Select Title.
I mean look at how the communities talking about Electronic Arts regarding Mass Effect? There are many hardcore Mass Effect fans that preys Mass Effect 2 and 3 that clearly do not like Andromeda because what is happened it doesn't actually mean they hate Mass Effect it simply means they like the series enough to want it to do better.

There's numerous examples of communities that come together and agree that a publisher as come across some hard times but you'll find when that publisher is tied to Hardware that people are reluctant to admit the mistakes even with as obvious as they are.

So trust me we all know those people that are going to swear the order 1886 was Game of the Year or that Star Fox Zero was the perfect game or that lucky Tales is the best top tier AAA content.

Believe me buddy if we were out here talking about a third party publisher you would not be singing praises over failures.

So when we're looking at Electronic Arts in trying to figure out what they could do to fix themselves I don't know what trying to bring up Activision is going to do 😂😂😂

You just don't want to admit the failure because you paid a lot of money for a system that clearly is not keeping up its end of the bargain in terms of exclusive content.

Cheaper console, more powerful, more games (AAA or not), nostalgia, better marketing and well... I think you already know this, but Microsoft shot themselves in the foot worse than any other gaming company in history. They attempted some really radical and unwarranted things that gamers pushed back on. It was unprecedented, and they've recovered remarkably, but Nintendo simply was on fire from the moment they pulled back the curtain on the NX.

Edmix, what an absolute crock of a post, patronising other gamers for their choices just because their purchasing decisions and requirements are different to yours. We all get YOU don't like Xbox, fortunately there are an awful lot of people who do.

The Last of Us released in 2013. Enough said. Lol

_-EDMIX-_

What have they done wrong?
They dont announce games 20 years out anymore, we know nothing beyond the second half of 2018 not because they have no game but because they decided not to announce any, yet. Dont worry they will come. They fixed the console, gave us every feature possible and some great services. Now they focus 100% on games.

What has Sony done for me lately, im a MP guy 95% of the time. Will sony ever release a decent MP game? Im just not into one and done SP story focused game like you calim everyone ever is. Sorry I prefer Gameplay over graphics and Story. Scripted nonsense isnt something I adore.

Well, MS just don’t know what the heck they were doing with their Xbox brand especially their competitors got the upper hands.

MS focused too much on NA and UK

I'm in asia and we get the raw deal, even excluding the very obvious lack of games:
- XB1 is way more expensive compared to PS and Switch, because there is little to no demands for it distributor supplied very few if not at all any XB products. In my country PS and Switch has about the same price as it is on US, it's not the case for XB1
- You can throw all those good experience you have with XBL, because here the server is laggy, almost no friends play there, and those good deals occasionally happening in the west is simply non-existent.
- No dedicated local support in my country while PS and Nintendo have one, lol seriously we have to call/go to another country if something happened
- NO GAMES LOL. Seriously MS is way too focused on multiplayer, it's a damn double-edged sword in regions where XBL is a barren wasteland. We don't care if Halo 5 is the 'best shooter' or whatever, no one to play with = no buy. It's SP games like Zelda, Mario, TLoU, HZD that pushed people to buy consoles in growing regions mate.

MS won't be winning anything anytime soon as long as they kept playing favourites, those 2:1 difference happened not just because some lame slight power gap or whatever you US dudes think is the reason while being blind to how MS treats other part of the world.

There were exclusives but your fanboy self knew that already. I also love how losers like you still try to act like exclusives don't matter when the last few years especially last year and this year showed that they do matter

There are many reasons why Sony did well 2013 - 2014.

The right question you should be asking is why are we now seeing the Ps4 and Switch continue to go from strength to strength, as opposed to xbox, which is falling behind in comparison?

The answer is AAA exclusives. Quality one's.

2013-2014 Retail First Party
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Knack
Driveclub
Infamous Second Son
Infamous First Light
LittleBigPlanet 3
MLB 14: The Show
TLOU Remastered

Yes, they were important.

1. Sony had many great games from 2013-2014 both on PS3 and PS4
2. PS4 was cheaper
3. The majority of people don't have short memories like you folks regarding the xbox and PS Brand. With the PS Brand people are confident that they will
a. Release exceptional varied games experiences throughout the PS console lifecycle
b. Supported globally

But has made it worse is you folks blind fanboy loyalty that you don't call out MS BS and point out their weakness instead cover them all the time.

Oh sorry I was wrong.

Sony is god, sony is life. Please sony take me into your inner soul and make me one of your warriorz! MS is EVIL!

Your a bit butthurt when you are wrong, you know that?

Many reasons at launch...
1. MS cost of $100 more (major reason at start)
2. PS4 having Major Deals with 3rd party AAA games that MS did not. (major reason at start)
3. Sony at the end of PS3 had major exclusives coming out while on 360 it was... well a tumble weed.
4. Sony showing the long game of what was coming out in exclusives.
5. Many folks still pissed about the 306 RRoD
6. DRM Always Online
7. Kinect in place and MS saying it won't work with out it.
8. XB1 Performance issues while PS4 did not on most Multi-plat games.

Now 5 years later...
1. The groundwork Sony started in 2013 after exclusive developers got final specs start to come to fruition given games take about 3 years to make. MS who started XB1 at the same time does not have this "flood" of exclusive games coming out when you should 5 years in. Exclusives matter. (major reason 5 years in)
2. Where your friends are. Install base (major reason 5 years in)
3. Sure XB1X is out but that doesn't mean performance issues start to happen all of a sudden on PS4 Pro and PS4. Let's also be honest 3rd party developers are building games to the biggest install base guess where that is.
4. XB1X still $100 more than it's competitor.
5. Native 4K and Checker board rendering are of diminishing returns: It's like comparing Sand at two different beaches at 6 feet away. The Org XB1 and PS4 was like comparing boulders and rocks at the beach.