Media Create reports Xbox Series sales are HALF what Famitsu has reported.

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Swolf712

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I trust a senior executive citing their numbers, not their numbers at face value alone.

Thanks for playing.
RTing a tweet and thanking them for the praise that came with those numbers is not the same as endorsing or "reporting" numbers though. There is so much wiggle room for them to be able to say "lol we never said those were accurate" while still basking in the free PR. MS has a tendency to do that.

They're also clearly not above lying or twisting the truth, as has been seen recently.
 

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This makes sense. There was no way to explain these exponentially higher Xbox sales with less games than they’ve ever had other than scalpers selling them to China or something. I doubt this will even make headlines anywhere but I’m sure Japanese publishers see these numbers and know what’s really going on.
 
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MC is more reliable than Famitsu… that was true before and it is true today. But I think maybe both are not accurate in this case… maybe something in the middle.

In any case it means nothing… it is like 50k units in over 2 years of tracking.

PS5 sales seems to be a bit lower on MC too.

Actually the PS5 #s look about what have been stated before. A bit higher in fact, tho these numbers probably include the recent few weeks. Last I remember it was roughly 1.6 million PS5 to ~ 220K Xbox Series.

I thought Famitsu was generally reliable? Maybe they were using sold-in for their Xbox numbers? I know they don't track Amazon Japan so that's something else to keep in mind.

Anyway, I guess this would just reinforce the Ampere and CESA numbers in a way, the former also cutting down Xbox Series numbers to something more realistic and accurate, if they're tracking actual sold-through figures. If the MC numbers for Xbox Series are true, it's quite lower in reality than what's been reported before, but they're still doing better in the territory compared to XBO.

It could make them catching 360's Japanese numbers much harder if not impossible, however.

I trust a senior executive citing their numbers, not their numbers at face value alone.

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MC is more reliable than Famitsu… that was true before and it is true today. But I think maybe both are not accurate in this case… maybe something in the middle.

In any case it means nothing… it is like 50k units in over 2 years of tracking.

PS5 sales seems to be a bit lower on MC too.
Nah, MC PS5 sales are higher.. MC is on the left.

You can expand the image out on the tweet.
 

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I trust a senior executive citing their numbers, not their numbers at face value alone.

Thanks for playing.

A senior executive known to both follow and incentivise console warriors on twitter? A senior executive of a company that doesn't even provide hardware numbers themselves? Hahahahaha

You are as sad as they come.
 

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A senior executive known to both follow and incentivise console warriors on twitter? A senior executive of a company that doesn't even provide hardware numbers themselves? Hahahahaha

You are as sad as they come.
Ain't that the same guy that said that we'll see 1080p res no matter what when talking about how the xbox one was underpowered?
....Yeah seems like a trustworthy guy but @DynamiteCop would rather believe any blatant and obvious lies that put Xbox in a more favorable light, it is not a surprise.
 

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Now MS paying for false reporting?...Did they learn that from PlayStation (a miserable almost bankrupt company?).

Who is actually competing here?.
 

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All of Xbox sales are not what’s been reporting. It’s like 2M less.

With Sony ramping up production for PS5 and are going to ship over 18M this year, Xbox is pretty much for done for this generation trying to gain marketshare. Sony’s increased chip production is not going to stop.

I feel sorry for Bethesda. Starfield would have been amazing on the largest and best platform and have all the true next generation features like Dualsense.
 

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All of Xbox sales are not what’s been reporting. It’s like 2M less.

With Sony ramping up production for PS5 and are going to ship over 18M this year, Xbox is pretty much for done for this generation trying to gain marketshare. Sony’s increased chip production is not going to stop.

I feel sorry for Bethesda. Starfield would have been amazing on the largest and best platform and have all the true next generation features like Dualsense.
Considering how Starfield looks and seems to play, I don't think even PlayStation's platform could have salvaged that half-ass pile of shit.

Nothing of value was lost.