Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted April 26 Diamond Member Share Posted April 26 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up / Scale is important, especially when talking about relative console sales. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) [/url] Yesterday, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that it made 31 percent less off Xbox hardware in the first quarter of 2024 (ending in March) than it had the year before, a decrease it says was "driven by lower volume of consoles sold." And that's not because the console sold particularly well a year ago, either; Xbox hardware revenue for the first calendar quarter of 2023 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up from the previous year. Those two data points speak to a console that is struggling to substantially increase its player base during a ******* that should, historically, be its strongest sales *******. But getting wider context on those numbers is a bit difficult because of how This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up reports its Xbox sales numbers (i.e., only in terms of quarterly changes in total console hardware revenue). Comparing those annual shifts to the unit sales numbers that Nintendo and Sony report every quarter is not exactly simple.Context clues This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (credit: Kyle Orland) To attempt some direct contextual comparison, we took unit sales numbers for some recent successful Sony and Nintendo consoles and converted them to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up -style year-over-year percentage changes (aligned with the launch date for each console). For this analysis, we skipped over each console's launch quarter, which contains less than three months of total sales (and often includes a lot of pent-up early adopter demand). We also skipped the first four quarters of a console's life cycle, which don't have a year-over-year comparison point from 12 months prior. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/22604-steampressputting-microsoft%E2%80%99s-cratering-xbox-console-sales-in-context/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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