Voost Kain
Banned
It looked pretty bad for a minute there, the DRM fiasco caused quite a stir before the consoles release.
Luckily for gamers, these polices were reversed, but the effects of the original "vision" still impacted sales later on. Sure, the launch was ok but it fell from there. Kinect was still going to be bundled with ever consoles, you still had to be online at least ONE time to even use the machine. It still took a year to release in most second priority countries, and Xbox was chasing others idea with experiments like Smart Glass.
While it wasn't a perfect turn around, especially with the mess the current team had to deal with, it is definitely a major turn around that I think can't be denied. More money in gaming revenue than ever before, tons of good will, great innovations like Gamepass, and momentum going into their next console.
Who in 2013 or even 2015 though that the console and the company would turn things around to a point where we will likely see a Xbox One LTD of 60 million consoles sold at minimum? Back then, everyone would laugh, but they somehow managed to do it. Looking at NPD and GFK data after the 41 million announcement we are looking at over 45 million now. That will be near 50 by September, which is the start of Xbox One's best selling quarter, likely doing over 50 million by January 2020. I suspect that 2021 we will see around a 60 million LTD due to price drops.
It's completely different from the losing competitor this generation the Wii U, where the attempts to salvage it all failed and left it with less than 15 million sold. This was what people though Microsoft would be at BEFORE the DRM reversals, and in the first couple years people were still expecting maybe 30 max. But now we are looking at a potential 60 million or over in sales. That's a pretty good turn around.
If things are done right for the next Xbox maybe we will see 360 level numbers again!
Luckily for gamers, these polices were reversed, but the effects of the original "vision" still impacted sales later on. Sure, the launch was ok but it fell from there. Kinect was still going to be bundled with ever consoles, you still had to be online at least ONE time to even use the machine. It still took a year to release in most second priority countries, and Xbox was chasing others idea with experiments like Smart Glass.
While it wasn't a perfect turn around, especially with the mess the current team had to deal with, it is definitely a major turn around that I think can't be denied. More money in gaming revenue than ever before, tons of good will, great innovations like Gamepass, and momentum going into their next console.
Who in 2013 or even 2015 though that the console and the company would turn things around to a point where we will likely see a Xbox One LTD of 60 million consoles sold at minimum? Back then, everyone would laugh, but they somehow managed to do it. Looking at NPD and GFK data after the 41 million announcement we are looking at over 45 million now. That will be near 50 by September, which is the start of Xbox One's best selling quarter, likely doing over 50 million by January 2020. I suspect that 2021 we will see around a 60 million LTD due to price drops.
It's completely different from the losing competitor this generation the Wii U, where the attempts to salvage it all failed and left it with less than 15 million sold. This was what people though Microsoft would be at BEFORE the DRM reversals, and in the first couple years people were still expecting maybe 30 max. But now we are looking at a potential 60 million or over in sales. That's a pretty good turn around.
If things are done right for the next Xbox maybe we will see 360 level numbers again!