"Xbox Series X|S sold an estimated 2.7 million units in the US market during 2024, marking its worst full-year performance in Xbox history. The numbers in Europe are staggeringly worse, with an estimated 290,000 units sold over the year. When you add the two up, you get just under 3 million in total units sold, which paints a very worrying picture for Microsoft's hardware gaming division.
These numbers are both down from 2023 (which was also a tough year), when Xbox sold 3.8 million units in the US and 550,000 units in Europe, for a combined 4.35 million. This is a nearly 10% drop year over year in units sold, leading Microsoft to report a Microsoft reported a 42% drop in Xbox hardware revenue for the quarter ending in June 2024 in recent months."
Meanwhile PS5 had its best quarter ever last holiday season with record breaking console sales and software sales, selling 9.5 million units from october 2024 to december 2024. PS5 has sold 4 million units in november 2024 meaning they sold more units in a single month than Xbox did during the whole year.
Many people haven't noticed this, but Xbox has completely stopped marketing their consoles since last year. No holiday sales, bundles, discount...
Xbox was also out of stock multiple times in different countries, like due to low supply.
They are clearly moving on.
SNOYARYANS WON
JESUS CHRISTINE WESTON CHANDLER SONICHU WON
HEXBOXCHUDS LOST
TOTAL SNOY-NINTENDO-SONICHU NIPPONESE CONSOLEGOD VICTORY
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There's no reason to buy anything else than a PC if you want to gayme
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why ping codecels?
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Because we PCCHADS WON
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Does xbox even have any exclusives? Isn't it just running Windows but with even worse UI?
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They don't. And all the ps exclusives are mid walking simulators about raising your girlfriend's kid
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Xbox already announced they are becoming a software only brand. Even have a deal to release games on the new switch
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Pc is for BIPOCs
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Oh yeah is a bipoc gonna build his own pc or is he finna play NBA on the new playstation.
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obviously not, r-slur
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if u havent bought ps5 pro with a disc drive addon already at rrp then u are certified poor and should hang
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it is a sign of wealth u silly billy, i still havent even loaded a disc despite calling jb hifi week after week until they fulfilled my preorder
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signs of wealth is very BIPOC coded
you are the ultimate BIPOCcattle and have the gall to call other people BIPOCS
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💯 the Xbox library is a joke compared to Steam
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Whataboutism one of those Chinese emulator handhelds?
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Chink handheld? Might as well buy an Israeli pager.
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My take: MSFT is laying the groundwork to pivot the Xbox to a budget windows-based gaming PC so they can merge their two gaming platforms. It makes no sense for them to compete with themselves.
A windows-based machine with a console UX that can run most AAA games at 4k/60fps and a price point around 600 bucks would make way more sense for them than another iteration of Xbox. Also it would absolutely btfo Sony.
I think MSFT saw what valve did with the steam deck and realized that gaben was going to eat their lunch while also pushing people onto Arch Linux
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Also the Linux on my steam deck is actually usable which is nice
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Yeah it's solid. It really is just Arch with some extra stuff on top.
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Steam deck is the future
Idk how anyone can use one with a dock on a TV and not see that and then you can take it wherever. Going to be like mobile phones taking over desktop usage
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I dont use mine with a dock much but it is surprisingly versatile with peripherals. I was able to get both a switch wired controller, and a hotas flight stick configured and usable with the deck.
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I like the dock since it hooks into my sound system and always has power. Bought 2 docks off amazon for the living room and bedroom TVs which I couldn't do both easily with Xbox. The controller mappings work usually but about 50% of steamOS games are iffy or too old/mouse oriented (stellaris or shadow of doubt)
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I am one of the r-slurs who bought the Sexbox Series S*x, its just lying there doing nothing. Probably will hand it over to my 5yr old nephew. Its literally pointless to buy if you have PC.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iq1664/xbox_sales_hit_rock_bottom_after_historic_2024/mcwk0nz/?context=8
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but most of my friends list is always offline
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Give it to me
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sure if you are willing to pay for shipping to texas, just $330
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I bought one primarily for media because I've been getting into collecting physical media lately, ever since I started noticing things, I decided to refuse to own nothing and be happy. Great blu ray player.
It has become that, plus occasional couch gaming for Diablo, Dark Pictures Anthology, and some digital games I had owned on the Xbox platform. Also occasionally pop in backwards compatible games I have the discs for from the 360 days.
It's rarely used though outside of a media player. I can count the times I game on it yearly on both hands and that's mostly just older exclusive Xbox stuff I can't play on my PC, for a couple hours to scratch an itch.
The real couch gaming move was setting up a nice little 2.5 gigabit home network and streaming Steam to my Apple TV.
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Same but I use a long HDMI cable from my PC to TV
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I gave my Xbox S to my nephew and bought a steam deck
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I play Snoy and Pretendo on my Steam Deck
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The knowledge that I can emulate Little Big Planet at any time I desire is extremely comfy.
Haven't done it yet but I'll crack it open when its power is needed
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Are fricking snoys really doing that much better, b-word?
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Honestly what kind of plebs are buying these things?
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Normies who don't know any better. I'm in a tech role and the two other people in my age group don't have PCs at home. Not even laptops.
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I think consoles could survive as a concept thanks to zoomer tech illiteracy. They just need a good marketing strategy
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It was over for consoles the minute they made you install the game and started crutching on day zero updates. One of the big selling points of old consoles (and nintendo stuff still) is being able to play the game within a minute of popping in the game. PS5 and Xbox make you wait waaaay to long to actually play the slop.
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I mean I bought a fricking switch because Nintendo is fricking weird but other consoles are fricking just a fricking shitbox pc
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Nintendo g*mers win by doing absolutely nothing
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Do nothing.
Win.
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PC > all, but you know what's fricked up? I'd still rather play a PS3 or 360 than a console from this generation.
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Halo Infinite was their last chance and it was a disaster. Not /s
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It's my chud phrase!
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They should lower the price
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You will never be a public company. You have no revenues, you have no growth, you have no monetizable user base. You are a website for basement dwellers twisted by venture capital and ad networks into a crude mockery of business' perfection.
All the "valuation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people invest in your competitors. Your shareholders are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "underwriters" laugh at your meager earnings behind closed doors.
Lenders are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of usury have allowed bankers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even businesses that are "ebitda positive" look uncanny and unnatural to a banker. Your balance sheet is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a positive quarter, the gains will turn tail and bolt the second investors get a whiff of your diseased, infected 10-K.
You will never IPO. You wrench out a fake outlook every month in modmail and tell yourself it's going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the runway falling away like the sands of time, ready to disappear under the unsustainable burn rate.
Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll sell the copyright, part out your IP to your highest bidder, file chapter 11, and beg your creditors for mercy. Your employees will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to work with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They'll bury you in their resumes with your incorporated name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a nerd worked there. Your web traffic will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is the fact that you walked the path of Digg.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
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I got a steam deck and started paying for Xbox Live Ultimate to stream games from a Microsoft datacenter. It works surprisingly well. I never noticed input lag. I would bet Microsoft is moving towards that in gaming.
I was watching TV with my brother-in-law and I noticed his TV kept advertising COD Black Ops 6. So I ask "Is that an ad or can you play it" so he checks it out and sure enough it's streaming off amazon luna. So I end up getting the game later and half the people in my lobby don't have a PS, xbox, or steam icon. No they have a picture of a TV.
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