Microsoft’s dual-console plan with the Xbox Collection technology has paid off, culminating in essentially the most quickest-selling Xbox console {hardware} gen of all time.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer lately re-confirmed the Xbox Collection X/S duo is the fastest-selling Xbox consoles of all time. This is not a surprise–Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella first confirmed the information method again in July 2021 throughout a This autumn name, saying: “Xbox Collection S and X are our fastest-selling consoles ever, with extra consoles offered life-to-date than any earlier technology.”
Six months later, that reality stays true. The Collection X and S fashions are promoting extraordinarily properly resulting from astronomically excessive demand (pushed by scalpers and real need from customers alike). “At this level [we have] offered extra of this technology of Xboxes, which is Xbox Collection X and S, than we had any earlier model of Xboxes,” Spencer mentioned in a latest New York Occasions column.
Niko Companions analyst Daniel Ahmad provides context to this assertion with some numbers.
Based on Ahmad, the Collection X/S have shipped over 12 million mixed models worldwide lifetime-to-date, beating the Xbox One which had about 12m throughout this era. The present Xbox technology additionally beats the Xbox 360, which had about 10.4 million shipments in the identical interval.
The PlayStation 5 nevertheless has shipped (sold-in) 13.4 million models as of September 30, 2021.