Console sales numbers are like the health bar in a fighting game: they only make sense when you look at both sides. In January 2019, games market analyst Daniel Ahmad, known as ZhugeEX and one of the administrators of the ResetEra forum, posted an estimate there: the Xbox One’s global installed base was around 41 million units by the end of 2018.
According to Ahmad, who tracks data from several consultancies, the share of games sold in digital format was much higher on Microsoft’s platform than on its competitors.
The number was an estimate because Microsoft itself had stopped reporting console sales in October 2015, preferring to talk about Xbox Live engagement. The last official figure was from November 2014, with 10 million units. Other estimates followed the same line: IHS Markit calculated 39.1 million by the end of March 2018.
For comparison, Sony reported that the PlayStation 4 had passed 91 million consoles sold in December 2018, with more than 876 million games sold. The gap was large, but the Xbox One remained strong in markets such as the United Kingdom, where the Xbox One S and Xbox One X versions had given sales a new lease of life.
What came next
The Xbox One was succeeded by the Xbox Series X and Series S, launched on November 10, 2020. Most analysts came to estimate total sales at around 50 to 51 million. In June 2023, in an ID@Xbox presentation at BIG Festival, here in Brazil, Microsoft revealed that more than 58 million Xbox One consoles had been shipped to market worldwide.
Source: ResetEra.
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