Gabriel Stanford-ReisingerXbox Series X|S console sales are down compared to last year, which is unfortunately not too surprising at this point. Overall, console hardware sales has remained fairly flat year-to-year, but it’s Xbox that’s seen the harshest decline.
Recent Circana data shared by Mat Piscatella on Bluesky points out a staggering 29% decline in Xbox console sales year-on-year while competition remains kinda steady, if not better off. In terms of PlayStation, the PS5 sees its sales numbers up by 15% while the Switch is down 3%, probably due to the impending reveal of the Switch successor.
It’s worth pointing out that Xbox is often lagging behind its competition, but with its model of being more widely available, releasing first-party games to competing consoles, the concept of Game Pass as a whole, and other major pivots that make its model less on the hardware and more on software, we can see this not being as big of a deal at Microsoft as it would be to PlayStation or Nintendo.
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