Good numbers for PS4 and XB1 considering they're in their 5th years. Amazing that the PS4 is still 299 and is showing no signs of slowing down. Also great to see MLB charting so high, I also believe that is the highest it has charted before.
I mean, if XB1X was 25-30% of XB1 sales, wouldn't you consider that a big driver? That doesn't really tell us much.
I've been thinking lately a bit on just how successful the X1X has been. It's really created a glow of positivity that Xbox sorely needed. Even myself owning one, I notice I take almost a certain pride in it. It's like the cadillac of consoles, you know it will basically play the best version of everything, it's kind of expensive like an Apple product... almost something you can brag about owning. So yeah, basically I think it turned Xbox gen around to the extent that it has injected late positivity. So kudos to Spencer and I'm pretty certain he's learning (he said recently something about watching consumers reaction to x1x, I dont think he meant sales), and I doubt Xbox will ever be largely underpowered again.
For the percentages, I dont know. It's still weird we get zero leaks about that. I'd almost think some are trying to suppress that info. It isn't like MS couldn't give us a percentage though. I understand why they dont give numbers, people can seize on those as to how much better PS is doing, but a percentage in a vacuum hurts nothing. Maybe they will at E3 or somewhere.
But yeah if MS wanted to get serious about starting to win some sales races they need to bring X1X down to 399, while also introducing a powered up base console (2+ teraflops) and also price that lower than the current X1 vanilla too. It's nice to want things, I guess.
Anyways I believe in the long term power wins out, so as long as X1X reigns there it should continue to gain sales share. This fall should see the first discounts and bundling on X1X (just like the timeline for Ps4 Pro). Of course one day concrete information of PS5 will rain on that parade, but not yet, and not for the foreseeable short to mid term.
Although side note, I would think a lot of X1X buyers are upgrading from vanilla Xbox, so you're not actually increasing userbase. In the end that's not really any concern though, and the same could be said for Ps4 Pro.
But yeah the generation certainly is going to last 6 years, since PS5 cant reasonably arrive this fall. So longer than 5 year generation which only basically started last gen, continue.
It's funny towards the end of 360/PS3 generation I felt like they were so woefully underpowered vs state of the art at that time (512MB RAM in 2012-2013...phones had more!). It was really beginning to bother me. I dont feel like that this gen at all (yet). Even the base consoles still feel squarely modern vs the PC (maybe it's just me on that?). And I'm sure the mid gen refreshes helped them not feel outdated a lot. I'm not sure if PC GPU advancement has also slowed or what. The featureset in PS4/Xbox One vanilla GPU is still pretty modern.
