Xbox One Worldwide Sales Are At 19 Million Units As Of December 31, 2015

Well, given how the Xbox One started this generation, those numbers aren't bad at all. It's picking up the pace. It won't catch up to the PS4 anytime soon (maybe not ever), but that isn't the only metric to measure its success by. When all is said and done, it looks like the XB1 will have sold well enough.

@charizard1605: That's only partially true. To get a game up and running irrespective of resolution and framerate, yes. For games like The Witcher that use primarily DX engine tools, yeah. However, to get a game to run even close to optimally, it requires involved use of the esram and memory management which is actually more time consuming than porting to the ps4.

Not too shabby. I also read Dec 2015 was the best month for Xbox(both consoles combined I guess). The other thing is that although the PS4 has a massive lead, this is not always translated in sales of multiplatform games. Sometimes it is, like with Ubisoft games for instance, but I also often see Xbox One games like BO3 or Battlefront perform relatively well compared to their PS4 counterparts. To me this means there are a lot of PS4 out there in the wild that people aren't buying games for a lot. An interesting number would be the average games sold per PS4 compared to average games sold on Xbox One. I somehow doubt that number would the same ratio as the sales gap ratio.

@Alucard_Prime: That's because Black Ops and Battlefront had hardware bundles on the PS4 so they don't count as software sales on NPD dummy. FFS, how many damn times does that need to be explained?

Got to try and find that silver lining, it's in there somewhere.

Not bad really funny how people are trying to spin this as a negative time crawl out sony ass guy's there only plastic boxes

@kwns:

@charizard1605 (Mods) can I call this dude a fucked up name for being unintelligent? Even if everything you said is true, the X1 is being outsold in those 40 countries. #Lem with it.

Most of the components for these consoles are made in the same factory, so what's your point again.

@charizard1605: Yeah, that's 100% accurate because, you know, Microsoft is going to share it's sales figures with EA...

@flyincloud1116: You may not.

Uh, yes?

Tigersuperman, where you at bro?

50% more powerful, 50% more sales. PS4 is the juggernaut of gen 8 console gaming.

Why wouldn't they?

Xbone isn't much of a challenge for the ps4. Hope it teaches MS to not force a useless peripheral on everyone and release an underpowered poopoo.

Why wouldthey?

Cows be like:

If a car manufacturer did not release unit sales, would it still share it's sales figures with Goodyear?

This thread is asinine.

Well it sold more than the wii u and the ps vita, so good job xbone *clap* *clap* *clap*

Congratulations, that may just be the worst analogy I have ever heard on this board. Not only does it betray a complete lack of understanding of how games business works, it betrays a complete lack of understanding of how any business works.

They are business partners. X1 sells directly affects EA's business, so I'm quite sure EA and other major publishers know exactly what is going on with X1. Why sign a time exclusive DLC deal if you are in jeopardy of losing large sums of revenue from putting yourself at a huge disadvantage from ignoring the huge sales difference.

@R4gn4r0k: @SecretPolice: @charizard1605: "Can anyone please explain to me how 19 million units sold is bad ?"

To be fair, you can argue MSoft may be in danger of Xbone's not matching 360's run.

HA HA!!! Not at all, you just don't want to admit that yours and NeoGAF's "deductive reasoning" is speculative. When you make factual claims like "Xbox One Worldwide Sales Are At 19 Million Units As Of December 31, 2015" with speculative information, you are being a fool.

Hence, as I stated earlier, this thread is asinine.

Yes, and Lems are kneeling.

Beat me to it. What you expect from Baby Gonzo.

Its not bad. Just that everytime a sales thread comes up, all the cows come out of the ductwork and bang on about how sales figures are the only metric of a console's success that matters. Regardless of lackluster libraries or lack of meaningful exclusive games.

The Xbox 360 is the fourth (or fifth, depending on which numbers you use) highest selling console of all time, not matching its numbers isn't exactly the end of the world.

It couldn't possibly be that Lemmings have screamed back until they're blue in the face that the XBone is keeping up with the XBox 360 despite the fact that it has until May of next year to magically conjure 11 million sales, could it?

You guys are always blaming the Cows for everything, including what comes out of your own mouths. That's why people are beating up on you guys so bad, lately. Just some friendly advice. Victim complex doesn't work when you're not accountable for your own shenanigans.

The new lemming modus operandi: when the information is unpleasant, the source of the information is clearly not trustworthy.

Tomorrow if Microsoft come out and announce these very same numbers, I'm sure we'll have the same Xbox fans claiming that even Microsoft's numbers aren't trustworthy. after all, why should they be? It doesn't fit the agenda, does it?

Can Goodyear expect to sell tires without cars? Do their tires fit multiple cars (platforms)? When you break down the relationship to "Manufacturer B's widget is reliant upon Manufacturer A's widget", it's not all that different - the gaming industry is not a unique business model.

@Chozofication: He stating facts not baised opinionated topics. And if you never said a similar post for ps3 last gen your extra annoying lol

Except, yet again, that analogy fails and betrays a complete lack of understanding of how the games industry works.

Platform holders share information and metrics like this to game companies- online consoles, members of the online service, software sales, hardware sales, attach ratio, digital:physical ratio, all of this information is shared with these companies. How else do you think these companies make software sales projections?

I don't even know why you're damage controlling as hard as you are, when 19 million is actually a good number.

@charizard1605: No, you just thing that the gaming industry is special - it's not. The same business model exists in 100s of other industries where one product is dependent upon another.

Can Hornady expect to sell a lot of bullets if Remington and Winchester can't sell guns? Same thing.

I don't give a rat's ass about the number - it could be 9 million, it could be 109 million. What I care about is that how you and NeoGaf got the number is NOT a fact, it is speculation and deduction. THAT'swhat I have a problem with.

@StormyJoe: And yet you're not answering my question- how else do you think these companies make software sales projections, if they don't know how big the base that they are selling their software to is?

You keep bringing up these car and gun industries, when they couldn't be farther from how the game industry works.

It would be ironic if Nintendo gets everything right with the NX, from powerful hardware to strong third-party support, and still fails.

Haha sounds like a few Super-trolls are angry here

I think the NX handheld will shore up the NX console while it still is entrenching itself (which it may take a while to do, considering that the NX console will be following up the Wii U).

It's exactly how the game industry works. EA cannot sell Game X without the PS4/Xbox One/PC. Good Year cannot sell tires without GM/Ford/Chrysler/Toyota, etc. Hornady cannot sell .223 ammo without Remmington/Winchester/etc.

One company's product is dependent on another company's product. It's not a unique business model.

And our favorite Xdrone counters these sales numbers with ... denial.

Hilariously predictable, as always,

Isn't it more like 100% more sales since it's doubling Xbone's?

@flyincloud1116: They are indeed. :P

Seems to me the overall state of the X1 is just peachy keen....

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-game-sales-surge-thanks-to-halo-5-and-minecra/1100-6434278/

Xbox Game Sales Surge Thanks to Halo 5 and Minecraft, Hardware Revenue Falls

Overall, Microsoft's gaming category rose by $192 million for the latest quarter

Wow is this thread delivering!

Diehard, aren't you.

He's in here for sure...

19 million is not terrible, but it is for Microsoft getting any third party exclusives unless they want to burn money doing so.

Redonkulous, why should I care, just pointing out they aren't doing too bad.

You on the other hand seem to care way toooo much, do us all a favor and show us where MS touched you....

:P

35million sales consoles speaking is far from respectable specially in an era where gaming and gamers in general are at a peak. Respectable is somewhere like 60 to 70M range not 35M considering its 2016 not 90s.

N64 was , sales wise , a shabby generation for Nintendo and as for SNES it sold more than 50million worldwide in an ERA when competition was as strong as ever ( Genesis ) while the biggest leap in gaming was lurking in the shadows ( 3D gaming ). In SNES era you could easily tell 35M sales as respective .. but now ? 35M ? Naaah .

It's aight. Not good.

LOL @ the lem meltdowns in this thread.