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From: 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 5
by chrisco255 3y ago
From: 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.
- phonon 3y agoGet it directly from MS? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/xboxseriesxconsoles https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/xboxseries...
- Maken 3y agoThis latest generation has been completely dwarfed by the Switch.
- guidedlight 3y agoThe console gaming industry has stopped growing. And as a result both Microsoft and Sony seem to be now trying to cannibalise each other to grow, and it has become a very tribal and bitter rivalry. This graphic from Microsoft shows clearly why the console industry is struggling. https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/642/2022/09/Gaming-Market-Slides.pdf https://news.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/642...
- a1o 3y agoWhat is the white on the bottom?
- Dalewyn 3y ago>Tbh, the latest gen of consoles is pretty underwhelming for me, I don't know how others feel. Practical computing performance plateaued like 10 years ago, which is why you're feeling unsatisfied. This applies to all markets of computing besides enterprise: Desktops/laptops, consoles, phones/tablets, all of it. Plenty of people refuse to upgrade from their Sandy Bridges and Skylakes for Windows 11 because they still run everything fine. Plenty of people find smartphone upgrade cycles unjustifiably short because upgrades bring so little in practice. As I mentioned earlier, the only computing segment still seeing significant leaps in performance to warrant constant and frequent upgrades is the enterprise, most obvious of which is the current "AI" fad.
- chrisco255 3y agoFor me the Apple silicon Macs are a real innovation. The battery life, size and weight is fantastic.