Microsoft Is Expecting Huge Xbox One Sales This Holiday--Here's Why

@ManjiSTP: you have no idea how mad people get that they can't play something because they put their old consoles away. i remember with hbo go in the past, or ps1 classics.

@ManjiSTP: I have an Xbox One but no Xbox 360, so this is huge for me. Immediately it adds hundreds (if not 1,000 by the time they're done) of new games for me to buy at bargain-bin prices. It doubles the number of Games with Gold titles I know get, from 2 per month to 4 per month, and gives me an opportunity to play some classic games from the 7th generation that I missed out on. This is huge.

@ManjiSTP: You're a sad little fanBOY, you can't see past your own nose. I have over 150 360 games and moved on to the X1. You think I want my house to look like your trailer ? With 2 consoles, wires, controllers and games everywhere, when I could have everything neatly in one place and using the same controller. You can't see the forest for the trees. That's just one reason BC is good, grow up.

@slayer0066: Your rant humored me. Apart from stating the obvious (Microsoft being the creator of Windows), you argument is based on bias and fortune-telling. It's just a pity hard stats trump bias and fortune-telling isn't real.

Here's some hard facts for you:

Sales for PS4: 22.7 million.

Sales for X1: 12.6 million.

Reference: http://www.vgchartz.com/ (if you can understand charts)

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, chum.

@ohjtbehaaaveMS better come through with it? NO, Sony does. PSnow is a joke. ANYTHING we get for free is better than what Sony is doing with PSnow.

@ohjtbehaaave: I guess you're slow in the head and didn't catch what MS said at E3. It's up to the Devs to make a 360 game backward compatible. All the Devs have to do is give there ok n MS will handle the rest.

@ohjtbehaaave: IF RDR doesn't get allowed for BC it wont be from a lack of trying on MS's part, but what you don't realise is, it will be up to R* to give it the go ahead or not. So IF it doesn't happen then gamers should be unhappy with R* not MS, and it could turn out to be bad PR for R* if they don't.

Ubisoft and Bethesda have given the go ahead already, and I would expect more to jump on board otherwise it will look bad in the eyes of gamers, but having said that EA & Activision will be the hardest to convince because all those 2 companies care about are profits, profits and more profits, but I guess time will tell.

@otterbee: people have been blinded by Sony and their past.

I find it absolutely ridiculous to see the level of expectations that people have from Microsoft for them to come through and compete (and win their hearts) against Sony.

Microsoft's console is full of options. Offers a variety of activities and people still find ressons to dismiss their offering. At this point, even Sony should be dumbfounded on why they are still able to hold people's wallets and opinion in their favour.

As for people, you all need to be realistic. Microsoft is not a Not-for-profit organization. While they need to make sure that their target market gets what they want without creating any ill will... anything they do, has to be in the favour of their shareholders at the end. Otherwise they won't be seen as a valuable investment. Same also holds true for Sony.

With that said, their product should looks solid to any person viewing their offering. Whether you see it valuable for your self or not, you still need to be objective. If you are not bias then I don't understand how you can dismiss the advantages of their product. The reason I believe the term "fanboy" is coined is because there are those people who do exactly just that, and express bias with nothing concrete to support while dismissing the achievements of the competing product.

Regardless of what Microsoft management stood for in 2013, the current management on 2015 couldn't be anymore different. If anyone has problems with their current product, then they honestly need to clean their glasses and see clarity in who is offering what at this point.

@otterbee: actually Xbox one sales are double or triple what they were from last year at this time. Microsoft has come out and said this.

@otterbee: please by all means go ahead and give us the sales number of the Xbox one the past 3 or 4 months. you seem to know how many consoles they have been selling.

@Kunakai: did you hear what he said? It is in beta!!!

the official list of games has not been released yet!

do you understand what beta means?

@hotwog21: you are clearly touched in the head if you think physical servers should be considered a priority over virtual servers.

It's like me claiming that those boxed cars from 60s should be the focus and not the sleek looking new ones.

Go do some research to get with the times, instead of spouting nonsense here.

@hotwog21: Dum dum its up to the Devs to give the ok for backward compatible games..

@hotwog21: xb360 was PowerPC, xbone is x86, true backwards compatibility is impossible, you can only emulate, and the publishers have to approve the emulations on a game by game basis, and the most greedy ones won't

@hotwog21: Dude you are seriously getting annoying. You do not understand how backwards compatibility and emulation works so stop posting about it or at the very least educate yourself on the subject before posting rants over and over again. You just sound like a bitter fanboy. Get over it and move on with your life. Spanning these comments and annoying everyone in them is going to get you nothing but banned.

@hotwog21: You've posted this 3 times on 3 different articles in the last 10 mins, why you so mad lol

@hard_serpent: The thing is you still need the 360 physical disc to play the games on Xbox1. So the company already got their money for the game disc being sold.

@hard_serpent: So you've seen the list of over 100 games that will be available at launch have you? of course not, you're just commenting on the 20 or so that's in the preview program at the moment, show some intelligence and wait until the full list is revealed then make a smug comment if it warrants one.

Think about this, how many people who say have both the XB1 & PS4 who are buying Rainbow Six Siege for example, but are not sure which console to buy it on, now decide to buy it on the XB1 because they will be getting 3 games instead of just the 1 on the PS4. The same can be said for Fallout 4, but i guess you didn't think about a scenario like that now did you?

Also there are a LOT of people who haven't bought either next gen console yet, so MS could sway people over to the XB1 when you can buy a game and get previous game(s) from the series included. People (not fanboys) always go with what's better value at the time, that's why Sony has sold so many PS4's so far, and i see this hurting Sony in the long run.