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Is Xbox doing poorly? I don't know much about the console space, but it looks to me like a continued success
by wsgeorge 3y ago
Is Xbox doing poorly? I don't know much about the console space, but it looks to me like a continued success
- izacus 3y agoIt's doing fine, but Sony is (again) doing a bit beter. Although it's a bit of a loaded question here, since Microsoft integrated Xbox and Windows gaming ecosystem. The current situation is actually pretty nice - there are three big players with big market shares from which neither has a clear monopoly. Microsoft is seriously thretening to break that by buying themself a monopoly in game publishing though.
- pjmlp 3y agoThere were always three big players, previously Microsoft's place was owned by SEGA.
- Keyframe 3y agoWhich resonates more than surface level of that statement you made. Xbox is pretty much next gen SEGA hardware and SEGA was ultimately driven to the ground by a guy that kickstarted Xbox (nasty people would say as a prize)
- sanderjd 3y agoI hadn't thought much about this, but you're so right, it's so refreshing that there is such healthy competition in this market.
- chrisco255 3y agoFrom: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co... Xbox One (2013) sold 50 million Units compared with PS4 (2013) selling 113 million units. Xbox X/S, their 4th gen Xbox, has sold less than 21 million units since 2020, when it was released, compared with PS5's 38 million units in the same timeframe. Tbh, the latest gen of consoles is pretty underwhelming for me, I don't know how others feel.
- RajT88 3y agoWe are at a level of fidelity where huge graphical improvements are not visually that much better than their predeccesors. Diminishing returns because of the limits of human cognition.
- drannex 3y agoNo personal hit or anything here, but really looking forward to how badly this will age in 10-15 years.
- RajT88 3y agoWe shall see. I am by far not the first to say such a thing. And I have been a gamer since the C64 days.
- starcraft2wol 3y agoI don't think this is the case. The primary limitation for games is cost of development. Creating content with an order of magnitude more detail is too expensive. The power of the last two generations of console have allowed developers to make high quality games cheaper. But they are also lazier. We aren't seeing the hyper optimized experiences that fully utilize the hardware like late generation PS2 and PS3. Consider that a PS3 has only 256 Mb of main RAM and 256 on the video card.
- donatj 3y agoTo be fair I had been searching for a non-scalped Series X since release until finally finding one a couple months ago. Stores are continuously sold out, so demand is outpacing supply. The S is pretty readily available but is less powerful than the previous mid generation upgrade, the Xbox One X. Given that until very recently most games supported both generations there was basically no reason to upgrade from a One X to a Series S
- mattl 3y agoI got a Series X via Best Buy through some Citizens Bank deal in early 2022. Took me an age to get a PS5 tho. Finally got one a few months ago.
- pjmlp 3y agoXbox One was a big mismanagement as they tried to pivot into a multimedia device, with lower focus on gaming and they angered the gamer community responsible for the XBox 360's success. They had to back pedal from that, brought in Phil Spencer, highly acknowledge in the game industry, he rebooted the whole XBox One approach, re-introduced the indie development support (yet another thing dropped in the meantime) as ID@Xbox program. The pandemic delivery issues with the Xbox Series X and Series S, and the fact that dev teams have to consider two different hardware models when targeting the XBox made it less atractive than targeting the Playstation or Switch. So even though they managed to recover from the mess with the XBox community, the efforts to recover from it have left it on a third place in regards to overall sales.