Pathfinder
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Not true at all.
Xbox One at 18 million (activated units)
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Not true at all.
The Abominable Snowman
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Of course, you know this does not translate to gaming, or anything really. There are different market conditions for different markets, and clearly at least in the US market both systems are driving growth and splitting the market somewhat evenly with obvious benefit to the PS4
freefornow
Member
Maybe his tweet was in jest also??
Xbox One All In One© Entertainment Platform®
Expecting the gen to last 15-20 years?
Xbox One is doing fine and people here freaking out loool
Console will sell 30m by this year´s end or more, 30m active users is alot, buying dlc and stuff, sure is not 60 milion like ps4 will probably boast but it is a very respectfull number.
Since this will be a very long gen (2019 earliest) we still have 4 years left of sales, 60/70m when all its said and done will be amazing for Xbox One since all the bad things that happened to the brand, i was expecting less.
Ps4 will end with >100milion yes and will be the real winner but Xbox will have amazing games, a big fanbase and best of all, great exclusives!
Console will sell 30m by this year´s end or more, 30m active users is alot, buying dlc and stuff, sure is not 60 milion like ps4 will probably boast but it is a very respectfull number.
Since this will be a very long gen (2019 earliest) we still have 4 years left of sales, 60/70m when all its said and done will be amazing for Xbox One since all the bad things that happened to the brand, i was expecting less.
Ps4 will end with >100milion yes and will be the real winner but Xbox will have amazing games, a big fanbase and best of all, great exclusives!
2035 sounds about right for 8K OLED at affordable prices.
there is no way it will sell 30 million by end of year. It will have to nearly double yearly sales for that to happen.
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
No, they don't. The worse this generation is for them, the more we can expect from the next.
No, it won't. It has to go from 8 to 9 million to 11 million.
StrongBlackVine
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No one deserves anything.
StrongBlackVine
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Xbox One will be lucky to hit 50 million unlessential this generation lasts another 5 or 6 years. It is doing less than 10 million a year right now.
I think it funny how they have no problem announcing some halfway concrete numbers for their exclusive software sales, but still nothing for hardware.
Shin-Ra
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boredandlazy
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Autocorrect or a cboat impression?
Birgitte2004
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Sure they do.
I'd bet money that they don't have exactly 200 million devices, or that it broke down to an even 180/18/2 million.
That just screams rounding.
And where I've worked, unless it's an official document (press release, shareholder review, customer presentation, etc), rounding is _very_ liberal. Like it's not at all uncommon to round 41% to 50% because it's still "in the ballpark" and makes math easier.
StrongBlackVine
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Pathfinder
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They have already declared they won't release sales figures for Xbox One anymore, so I wouldn't expect them.
Dee Dah Dave
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Not too bad really considering the terrible start. They can probably get out of the generation with maybe ~50 million sold tops. Once a slim version comes into play and cheaper prices etc.
They must be kicking themselves for handing Sony half of their market share, idiots. Marc Whiten and chums thought every household in America was going to buy one lol.
They must be kicking themselves for handing Sony half of their market share, idiots. Marc Whiten and chums thought every household in America was going to buy one lol.
Welfare
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Posting facts is comedy gold?
boredandlazy
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So anyway for the next Ars Technica article about console sales is Kyle Orland going to change the horizontal axis to 'activated units' for the XBOne?
How can you infer this with certainty, when we do not even have the December NPD, which is the most important part of the puzzle left to us by the benevolent MAU prophet that is MS?
Collateral22
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I actually thought for about a year or so that he was a 15 year old rampant fanboy who kept popping up on my timeline. Shocked me when I found out he was a grown man.
rakkadakka
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I have a Xboner and all my friends have Xboners.
We love talking about our Xbones.
Lets us call it what we want, thanks.
Anyway, lower than I would have thought compared to the PS4 but not crazy considering how much better Sony's console has been doing.
Statements like "X% up" without any frame of reference sound so much better than releasing actual sales figures and thereby officially admitting your product is getting outsold 2:1.
Pathfinder
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Sony used to group all Playstation sales into one figure, so you can't exactly blame a company who's in second place for presenting their numbers in the best way possible.
boredandlazy
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
That you're even entertaining the idea that 18M Xbone's might have connected online in a span of 28 days, yes.
slavesnyder
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Who said that Sony got a blue ribbon for doing so?
Pathfinder
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No one. But let's not pretend that this practice is unheard of.
no one is saying it's unheard of, people are saying its spin
Pathfinder
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No argument here.
Celestial Mortal
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You mean 1.9:1
spatenfloot
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If you round like they do in the article, it is 1:1.
ethomaz
Banned
Nobody expected that lol
Unless we are talking about shipments... that could be crossed 20m.
pixelation
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If not dire then it sure isn't as good as they'd like it to be... what other reason is there for them to stop releasing sales numbers?
Pathfinder
Member
Obviously things are not going as planned this generation. And Spencer's declaration for not releasing sold-through numbers anymore is directly related to that.
But I'd hardly call the situation dire.
The article states that out of the 220 million devices which were online in the last 28 days, 18 million were Xbox's. So there's also the Xbox's which haven't upgraded and the ones which simply weren't online.
How many is that is no idea. I don't see how it was comedy gold?
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
Xbox 360 does not run Windows 10.
Pathfinder
Member
No, this thread is about how many Xbox One's have been activated with Windows 10. Xbox 360's don't run Windows 10.
Because that article is a whole bunch of crap.
Xbox One active users probably around 17.x million. Anything above and Mary Jo Foley's inside source would not hesitate to say "over 18m" or "more than 18m". It's also hard to entertain the idea that a sizeable number have not once turned on their system the whole of December, especially since (a) it's the most active time of year (b) users are enjoying "the greatest games lineup in Xbox history" (c) the system doubles as a media centre.
1 million people who literally are letting their Xbox One gather dust, at a push. That would put sales at 18.x million units sold through.
The person who released that information has been close to Microsoft for many years, I'm not stating its definitely true, more so, its not a 'bunch of crap'. I'm very inclined to believe it.
The 200mil number is official also.