Well, we already have the financial results for Microsoft and they are consistent with what we told you less than two hours ago. And it is that the new strategy with Xbox Game Pass and a culture that includes games on the user side, has made this Microsoft, the strongest to date.
Those at Redmond have secured a battery of games for months and years to come, and an enviable studio cast. The largest to date in the console industry. The point is, if all that sounds like little to you, today we know that the Xbox Series (combined in both models) is becoming the best-selling Xbox console to date.
Xbox Series is an unlocked achievement
At the moment the new American consoles are their biggest success, outperform Xbox One sales, which in turn surpassed the Xbox 360 and Xbox Original. Sharing games with the PC or porting their games to mobile via Cloud Gaming has not diminished consumer interest in these two machines.
In the words of Satya Nadella himself, Microsoft is all about video games, and the Xbox Series is its biggest milestone.
We all look to the games. The Xbox Series X and S are our best-selling consoles, with the most consoles sold so far this generation.
Over 6 million Xbox Series
You already know that Microsoft does not give sales figures, but analyst Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners, has valued about 6.5 million machines sold, and compares them with their older sisters: these would be their estimates.
- Xbox 360 – 5 millions.
- Xbox one – 5.7 million.
- Xbox Series – 6.5 million.
Whether these numbers are reliable or not, the truth is that at least we know that over 5 million consoles are in gamers’ homes. Despite the pandemic’s production issues and shortages, it looks like Microsoft hasn’t done badly at all.
