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Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation

in.ign.com Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation

Back in 2022, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer revealed that Microsoft lost between $100 to $200 on every console sold.

For reference, Sony was recently boasting that PS5 sold over 80 million copies. This is terrible for Xbox.

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Every time I read any Xbox news, I immediately remember the email that Phil Spencer sent to Satya Nadella when PS5 was announced. The email gets funnier as the days go by, and as additional context gets added in the form of news like the OP.
Inserting below part of the email thread that I like the most:
Even as I type this I know I shouldn't but I can't help myself.
We've all lived with 7 years of starting off a generation with a price and performance (and messaging)disadvantage to PS4 with Xbox One. I have to admit this morning when I woke up knowing the PS5 reveal was today that the stress level was higher than normal. Now after almost 12 hours of soaking in their unveil, taking apart their specs and looking at the community responses I just wanted to say that I'm proud of our team.
We have a better product than Sony does, not just on hardware but equally important on the software platform and services on top of the hardware. We have the ingredients of a winning plan. I felt the feedback from the BoD discussion on being too confident and maybe this will just reinforce that perception, I get the need to be humbly confident but today was a good day for us.
We haven't won anything. And I know we have hard discussion about pricing, P&L, investments etc. This mail isn’t trying to scoop any of that, those discussions really matter. But we can take confidence in our product truth hereand I do believe any conversation needs to start with believing in that. This was a good day for Xbox.
Thanks for indulging me.
Phil
- lol, the ps5 controller alone is enough reason to purchase over the xbox. I have both and games are just more fun on the PS5, its better in every way.
  
  meh, the controller is the only thing i prefer on xbox.
  
  Yup, best controller design for my hands. If only the quality of its components wasn‘t so crap. Drifting sticks, squeaky triggers, double pressing buttons, I had it all. I thought an elite controller would be of better quality, got one, and the plastic of the right shoulder button straightup broke within a year. No dropping, no throwing, it just broke from normal use lol
  The form‘s great, the buttons (when they work), are great, the sticks (when they work) are great. It just doesn‘t last long past warranty. Thankfully they‘re on sale every year for like 35 bucks but I‘d rather they were a tad more expensive with better quality components… I guess they don‘t mind people having to buy more of them either though…
  
  The XBone controller is more comfortable, but I really like the analog/adaptive triggers on the DualSense. That gives it the edge imo. The center button/pad can also be cool if used correctly.
  
  I recently played using one of the new xbox controllers, I much prefer the ps5 controllers, with or without the fancy force feedback. The old 360 controllers were great compared to the playstation controllers at the time, but the new ones don't feel good.
  
  I have never used Xbox controllers so I can’t speak for their ergonomics or ease of use.
  But I definitely find the DualSense controller to be more aesthetically appealing, partly due to its symmetry, and I have to admit, as silly as it sounds, that it was the second most important factor when purchasing PS4 Pro around a decade ago.
  The first most important factor being the games catalogue.
  
  I guess at this point, with muscle memory playing a large part, that what you had before is what you'll have next.
  I cant use the PlayStation controllers, I need the asymmetry of the sticks. Its almost as bad as playing on the wrong invert y setting.
  
  While moving to the current generation, I did give Xbox Series X an honest consideration. But the games catalogue made me choose PS5 over it once again.
  In hindsight, especially after owning a Steam Deck, I am glad I stuck with PlayStation.
  Its almost as bad as playing on the wrong invert y setting.
  Yikes! I never thought about controller layouts in this way.

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