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Xbox One has sold 18 million units worldwide, eSports CEO reveals
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Wasn't the ps4 at 39m a couple months ago?
spatenfloot
Member
Not a chance.
We should just have a mega thread titled "We don't know how many Xboxes have been sold: Everyone except Microsoft"
Beautiful Ninja
Member
You need to actually look at early Xbox 360 sales. They were not very good, in part because the first 6 months or so had them so stock limited that you couldn't buy them even if you wanted to. 360 only really got its momentum going in its third year. In that same third year, we're seeing Xbox One doing worse than what it did last year and what 360 was doing in the same time frame.
ethomaz
Banned
That was apart of MS pr last holiday. Was it not?
No, it's not in the least bit possible. If we're talking about the PS4 doing 3 million in the first three months, sure. The XB1 will be lucky to even do half of that. In the first three months, it sold ~619K in the US. It is widely accepted that the US contributes around 60% of the XB1's global sales. That would put it at roughly 1032K. So please tell me where did the other two million come from.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yes it was but proof would be handy.
*Applauds*
Actually, the PS4 could very well be close to 40 million as of today. In the first three months of 2016, it sold roughly 964K in the US alone. Based on the official figures given by Sony, the US contributes about a third of the global sales. So that would mean about 2892K worldwide in the first three months. Add it to the 35.9 million and we get 38.79 million. Today, it should be almost at 39.5 million.
Bolivar687
Banned
Dont forget the MAUs - the quote says 18 million Xbox users not units sold.
Iztok Mravlja
Banned
Well, I bought two, so I'm doing my part.
I just hope Xbox is profitable for them, because I really want them to stay in the market.
I just hope Xbox is profitable for them, because I really want them to stay in the market.
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
And here is to many more!
True. I overestimated it quite a bit.
It would have been cool if MS made announcements during milestones at least, for instance an update on sales during E3 or their MS events.
I could have sworn I've seen many posts that say it is outperforming the 360, launch aligned, and it's a major success only not heightened enough due to the PS4's even greater success. But again, looking at things more closely, it appears that 360's early years were heavily hampered by limited stocks and that the One's third year is not doing better than the 360's third year.
You're right - I had a look recently and just mentioned it as well on my post above. That makes a lot of sense and changes my perspective. I should remind myself not to read too much into some members' posts on NPD threads (said member(s) makes the One look more impressive sales-wise in his posts than they really are, gave me a wrong impression)^^
In that case I am way off. I'm not a sales expert and not up to date and my posts likely showed my ignorance in that topic.
It's cool. You got to really follow sales threads to get a good idea of how well a system is actually doing. I would prefer it if those who don't really know not make any baseless claims.
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