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[semiconscious]

Pathetic they decided not to report numbers any more, instead useless online data.

that's only till they're back on top again ...

 

[Heigic]

Everyone quoted it wrong. There is 18 million active units not 18 million activated units. Microsoft determines an active unit as being used within the last 28 days. So it is most likely slightly more than 18 million.

 

[IvanJ]

My favorite part of the article is how 35.9 million got rounded down to 35 million.

 

[Begaria]

Eh, I'll believe it when I hear it right from Microsoft.

 

[Asd202]

that's only till they're back on top again ...

That's the sad part.

 

[jhmtehgamr20xx]

If I remember correctly, all X1's still need to connect to the internet on start up, correct? If not, then 18 million is the bare minimum amount of consoles sold, since that amount would be composed of only people who decided to take their machine online.

Dont you mean "bare maximum"? I have an extremely hard time believing XBO is over 18 million sold-through worldwide. I personally thought it closer to 16-17 million at this point, but 18 million sounds reasonable too.

That's being quite generous, though.

My favorite part of the article is how 35.9 million got rounded down to 35 million.

So these guys can't even do basic math?

 

[get2sammyb]

Great numbers for XB1. They really managed to turn it around after the rocky start. Best OS updates in the industry. Competition is a good thing.

This reads like a parody post. Not entirely sure whether it is, though... XD

 

[AmaterasuOni]

Everyone quoted it wrong. There is 18 million active units not 18 million activated units. Microsoft determines an active unit as being used within the last 28 days. So it is most likely slightly more than 18 million.

Oh, that sudden twist!

This is actually more than I thought. I was pretty certain Microsoft stood at around 17 mil.

 

[Raist]

Million zombies killed
Billions bullet fired
MAU
W10 activated

These new metrics for console sales are fascinating.

 

[Mendax]

Great numbers for XB1. They really managed to turn it around after the rocky start. Best OS updates in the industry. Competition is a good thing.

EDIT: This is for US only, right?

Finally, a game console for memes.

yes and five memes in one post at that. must be a new record xD

 

[Theorry]

I wait for real numbers.Not this weird stuff. If we ever gonna get that

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Looks like they had a good holiday and shrunk the gap

OK gonna subscribe to this topic if we are getting comedy gold like this.

 

[backbreaker65]

Man delete this shit, it doesn't mean a thing, Just gibberish.

 

[Chris1]

Mary Jo didn't predict or estimate. She said a source in MS told her that of the 200 million active W10 devices, 180 million were pcs, 18 million were Bones, and 2 million were phones and other devices. Again, she said this came from a source within MS.

"While this is not official, it is reliable and probably the best we are going to get since Microsoft won’t talk."

That didn't sound like it..

Either way it still doesn't say a whole lot in terms of accurate sales figures, but if 18M is accurate then console sales will probably be around 19-20M. Not every single console has been turned on in the last 2 months and downloaded the update, if that was true there'd be no used stock anywhere.

 

[Dawnbuster]

Pathetic they decided not to report numbers any more, instead useless online data.

Not sure how this is pathetic. Raw sales numbers would be higher than 18 million. That is 18 million pretty active users.

I have an Xbox One with five controllers and over a dozen games, with the Win 10 update, but haven't turned it on in the past 28 days because I've been replaying Uncharted collection and grinding N++ on ps4. So I wouldn't even be counted.

 

[Birgitte2004]

Mary Jo didn't predict or estimate. She said a source in MS told her that of the 200 million active W10 devices, 180 million were pcs, 18 million were Bones, and 2 million were phones and other devices. Again, she said this came from a source within MS.

So, estimates which are heavily rounded at best, so don't tell us anything really except probably somewhere between 15 and 20 million.

 

[cakely]

EDIT: This is for US only, right?

This is the best part.

 

[JaggedSac]

"While this is not official, it is reliable and probably the best we are going to get since Microsoft won’t talk."

That didn't sound like it..

Either way it still doesn't say a whole lot in terms of accurate sales figures, but if 18M is accurate then console sales will probably be around 19-20M. Not every single console has been turned on in the last 2 months and downloaded the update, if that was true there'd be no used stock anywhere.

Well, I believe she also said in that podcast that the number of active devices was from the last 28 days, not 2 months.

 

[Welfare]

Posting this again. If the 18 million number is accurate, then that is 18 million Xbox One's that were updated to W10 used in the last 28 days.

Update: A company spoksperson confirmed the 200 million figure includes Xbox One consoles. And "active" means Windows 10 devices that have been "active" in the last 28 days, the spokesperson said.

 

[IndoAssassin]

So going by how they rounded 35.9 million down to 35 Million I'm guessing they either rounded 17.1 million up to 18 million or 18.9 million down to 18 million.

So the X1 sold between 17.1 - 18.9 million

 

[IvanJ]

Mary Jo didn't predict or estimate. She said a source in MS told her that of the 200 million active W10 devices, 180 million were pcs, 18 million were Bones, and 2 million were phones and other devices. Again, she said this came from a source within MS.

Now I think the numbers are completely made up.
Because it is a complete disaster for Microsoft if they managed to sell only 2 million smartphones and Surfaces in the past couple of months (and that's presuming none of the older purchases upgraded).

 

[joecanada]

If I remember correctly, all X1's still need to connect to the internet on start up, correct? If not, then 18 million is the bare minimum amount of consoles sold, since that amount would be composed of only people who decided to take their machine online.

bare minimum? I mean yes it's the floor level if that's what you mean, but the amount of people not taking an xbox online would be what like 1% maybe? We have had multiple threads of people stating their games didn't work without an update so I'm pretty sure the number would be very small.

I'm sure you meant that, but saying "bare minimum" makes it sound like there's a range, I don't think there's much range there.

 

[AmuroChan]

Looks like they had a good holiday and shrunk the gap

How? PS4 had the better holiday of the two in NA, the only market where there's even a competition. Worldwide that gap continues to get bigger and bigger.

 

[OldRoutes]

Update: A company spoksperson confirmed the 200 million figure includes Xbox One consoles. And "active" means Windows 10 devices that have been "active" in the last 28 days, the spokesperson said.

So that doesn't mean much. Sorry guis.

 

[jesu]

So, estimates which are heavily rounded at best, so don't tell us anything really except probably somewhere between 15 and 20 million.

Who rounds 15 million or 20 million to 18 million?

 

[cireza]

If the console is around 20 millions sold, it is already a pretty good achievement.

 

[JaggedSac]

So, estimates which are heavily rounded at best, so don't tell us anything really except probably somewhere between 15 and 20 million.

I'm not suggesting these numbers are exact, but do you think MS doesnt have analytics that tell them exactly the number of unique devices that have touched their services over the last 28 days?

 

[icespide]

If backwards compatibility was there from the start with 100s of 360 games i think that number would be 22 - 25 million units.

I don't think it would have had an impact at all

 

[JaggedSac]

Now I think the numbers are completely made up.
Because it is a complete disaster for Microsoft if they managed to sell only 2 million smartphones and Surfaces in the past couple of months (and that's presuming none of the older purchases upgraded).

Surface would be considered a pc. And 2 million W10M devices would be pretty good, lol. Especially since the 950s were too expensive and only available from ATT unless you paid full price from a MS store.

 

[Tankard]

So that doesn't mean much. Sorry guis.

You think? lol

At least this thread brought the Movalpolos post, it's like a meme greatest hits.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Curious what the split is between NA and the other territories.

I'd be amazed if it's not 60-70% in the US.

 

[mejin]

unofficial spins FFS

 

[AmuroChan]

I'd be amazed if it's not 60-70% in the US.

Yea, I was thinking around 70% as well.

 

[D4Danger]

Great numbers for XB1. They really managed to turn it around after the rocky start. Best OS updates in the industry. Competition is a good thing.

EDIT: This is for US only, right?

does this even make a difference? apart from the UK it's not like anyone else is buying it.

I don't think it would have had an impact at all

yeah nothing was saving the xbox one launch. That thing was a disaster.

 

[nib95]

I'd be amazed if it's not 60-70% in the US.

Don't we have a US Ltd based on NPD figures?

 

[modalife]

While Microsoft has conveniently decided not to share sales figures any more, some statistics revealed recently suggest that so far they have managed to sell 18 million Xbox Ones.

And yes, thankfully that figure is for consoles sold, and not shipped.

So, this number here...is not an official press release by MS? I mean, if it's wrong, and it could very well be, there is no reason to refute it because it's not official, but a leak. And if it is true, there's not reason to verify because, again, not official.

So, pretty useless rumor, all in all.

 

[yamo]

Most people I know has not turned on their Xbones in the last 28 days. So Microsoft has probably sold more than double the amount of activated units, right? I would guess they have a slight edge on Sony and the PS4.

Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[Thebeardofknowledge]

So going by how they rounded 35.9 million down to 35 Million I'm guessing they either rounded 17.1 million up to 18 million or 18.9 million down to 18 million.

So the X1 sold between 17.1 - 18.9 million

I don't think that's how rounding works

 

[dubq]

I don't think that's how rounding works

LIRL

 

[LukasTaves]

Now I think the numbers are completely made up.
Because it is a complete disaster for Microsoft if they managed to sell only 2 million smartphones and Surfaces in the past couple of months (and that's presuming none of the older purchases upgraded).

Surface devices would be in the PC category, and win10 mobile hasn't been launched officially yet, so these numbers could very well be real.

 

[Welfare]

Don't we have a US Ltd based on NPD figures?

We will have an updated LTD in the US next thursday. Current number as of November 2015 is ~9760k.

 

[FonkyByNature]

Great numbers for XB1. They really managed to turn it around after the rocky start. Best OS updates in the industry. Competition is a good thing.

EDIT: This is for US only, right?

I see what you did there.

 

[D4Danger]

Most people I know has not turned on their Xbones in the last 28 days. So Microsoft has probably sold more than double the amount of activated units, right? I would guess they have a slight edge on Sony and the PS4.

Sounds reasonable to me.

2/10. must try harder.

 

[Theorry]

Most people I know has not turned on their Xbones in the last 28 days. So Microsoft has probably sold more than double the amount of activated units, right? I would guess they have a slight edge on Sony and the PS4.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Nah not double. I think overall its sits arround 20 to 21 million units sold. Wich is pretty good in a world were PS4 exist.
Edit: Wait its sarcasm probably.

 

[shadowfall]

Well this means at bare minimum there are 18 million xbox ones sold. Still better than WiiU

 

[dubq]

Most people I know has not turned on their Xbones in the last 28 days. So Microsoft has probably sold more than double the amount of activated units, right? I would guess they have a slight edge on Sony and the PS4.

Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[Mendax]

Nah not double. I think overall its sits arround 20 to 21 million units sold. Wich is pretty good in a world were PS4 exist.
Edit: Wait its sarcasm probably.

your post or the previous post? hahaha

 

[Piggus]

Damn, still at 2:1. There's nothing they can do to shrink that gap now if not even Halo had a notable affect.

The gap isn't going to shrink unless it starts selling at an even pace. And that just isn't gonna happen anywhere outside the US or UK.

 

[Jigolo]

Never heard of that site

 

[Theorry]

your post or the previous post? hahaha

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