Xbox One Sells a Million Units In 24 Hours

[Evonisia]

Gonna say the same thing I said about the PS4 launch: one million people aren't responsible with their money and are suckers for being early adopters.

And if they never bought the console, nobody would get the console when it's so much better two years later because, like the Dreamcast, it will be dead.

Doesn't change anything - buying on launch is playing a lottery without a prize.

Besides, keeping a console alive is not up to consumers - it's a product that's supposed to give you entertainment, not an obligation to risk your money so some company can stay profitable.

If a console maker wants me to buy on launch - give me proper incentives (more launch games, discounts, etc.)

Then has it not occurred to you that the current launch line up convinced some people to buy it? I know some people will just buy a new console out of brand loyalty but not every single one of the 1 million bought it for the console itself. Even those people are suckers who aren't responsible with their money.

 

[Roxas1359]

On top of that: REGION LOCKING. Region locking is the one and ONLY thing that is stopping me from going out right now and buying a Wii U.

Join me my friend, we must bellow our anger at the most retarded region locks I've ever seen! Seriously, Nintendo has a huge problem with region locking, especially when not even half of the games that are not first party with an Italian plumber in it hardly ever get localized in other countries. I mean, I can understand region locking digital software, to a degree, but region locking physical software is the stupidest thing ever. Heck I broke the region locking on my Nintendo Wii so I could play my imported games that never came to the US. Sadly though Nintendo is very very backwards when it comes to region locking and they'll probably never change it sadly. T^T

OT: Well good for Microsoft, let's see if they can keep it up.

 

[Makabriel]

Oh god I need some popcorn. These posts are getting entertaining.

OT: Good for microsoft. Maybe this news will help show people the games are what matter, not the political piss fight called the console wars.

100+ posts seem to say other wise. The hatred will flow.. always

 

[Hero of Lime]

I wonder what the sales would've been like had they kept the original policies. It still would've sold well all because of the Xbox brand alone, but I'm sure lots of people who hated the Xbox One at first ended up picking one up after the policy changes.

As long as their new policies stay in place, I have little against the Xbox One because they listened to the negative feedback and changed it. I still have no plans to get one for a while, but I'll get it a few years down the road I'm sure.

 

[TheNarrator]

I'm disappointed. I wanted to see this thing crash and burn.

To be honest, I think these figures arent't that great for MS at all, in comparison to Sony's. There may be some wishful thinking involved here, but really North America is the only territory where the Xbox competes on the same level as PlayStation. In Japan basically everyone buys PS, Microsoft makes 0 effort to cater to that huge market; and in Europe, PS is also significantly more popular than Xbox, although the gap isn't nearly as big as in Japan. The fact that they didn't outsell PS in NA (and in fact probably lost by a fairly large margin) probably means that the console wars have started very badly for them.

 

[Erttheking]

Guys? Can we chill? I'm not the biggest fan of Microsoft either, but good lord we need to keep things in perspective here. Microsoft backpedaled on most of the crappy decisions that they made regarding DRM and other crap, and it's after THAT that these sales happened. Shouldn't that set a good precedent? And please stop treating every last person who buys an Xbox one as a moron, I really hate it when people get upset that people didn't make the "right" choice when it came to a gaming platform.

Besides, if you really want the PS4 to sell better, it's sold just as much as the Xbox One, and it's only been released in a fraction of as many countries.

No, not really. There is no reason to chill when the worst option out there is selling a million on first day.
Microsoft backpedaled on some of the crappy decisions which still does not magically remove the fact that they ever though such decisions were a good idea and defended them with ferocity (to the point of telling you to move house to pay xbox). So no, selling a console from people like them is not a good precedent. it is a predecent of showing that gamers have short memory spans and forgive everything as long as you give them shiny toys.

This mindset is the same mindset behind anyone who ever said that people who got consoles instead of PCs were stupid. It's judging someone for just buying a different product that the one that you liked. Microsoft was a bunch of idiots when dealing with the DRM policies and other crap, I don't think anyone is denying that. But you know what? They caved, they gave into the complaining, and everyone was happier with the changes that they made. And people bought these consoles, AFTER those changes were made. How does that send the message that gamers have short term memories? If anything it says that treating them with respect and listening to demands is the way to go.

They just wanted shiny new toys? How do you know that? How do you know that they didn't want to play Ryse, or Halo, or Dead Rising or Sunset Overdrive? Can we please not jump to conclusions and judge people who we literally know nothing about aside from what box that plays games that they bought? Really your statements are more than a little hyperbolic.

And even after that, at the end of the day, the Xbox One sold a million units after being sold in 13 different countries, including North America, while the PS4 sold just as much while being limited to North America. And North America is usually where the Xbox sells the best, but according to these starting sales, the PS4 is actually selling better than Xbox One.

Please. Stop judging people for what gaming system they buy.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Ahhh, the smell of failure. Not the failure of the XB1, nor Microsoft. The failure of the E3 euphoria about Sony. I know the numbers aren't just NA, that there are 13 total countries counted but honestly you think the numbers are significantly less in NA? I don't because NA is still a consumer driven country.
Why am I gloating? Because I just love to watch folk "predict" the future and crash and burn. XB1 and PS4 are both going to be around for a while, because MONEY.
Whats the answer to 99/100 questions? Money.
I shouldn't need to explain that reasoning.
Besides, MS actually did a 180 on most of the "damning evidence" revealed at E3 whereas Sony really didn't do anything at E3 except say "we're not doing what MS is doing". And now, after both have released, it doesn't matter what Sony said or what MS said. It only matters what games come out for what system.
XBox 360 didn't die out despite the RRoD.
PS3 didn't die out because initially they didn't offer jack shit.

The consoles will be around until the industry collapses or there's no way to distinguish between a PC and console (which is fast coming).
And this sectarian squabbling over who's better is just petty, stupid and not conductive to the industry. It only serves to show how shitty some people can be, especially by judging folk on what system they support.
I happen to support the industry, whether its XB1, PS4, WiiU, PC or the in-between, I play games not politics. Some might call me anti-consumer, maybe I am because I've seen how petty consumers can be and honestly why would I support people who are JUST AS SELFISH as the companies they claim are.
Flame me all you want, hate me all you want but its the truth. ALL humans are selfish, even when they're being charitable.

 

[Dragonbums]

One million units worldwide?

That's pretty sad man.

Fire Emblem: Awakening made more sales than that. And that's a pretty niche Nintendo game.

That bad PR is really nicking them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'm disappointed. I wanted to see this thing crash and burn.

To be honest, I think these figures arent't that great for MS at all, in comparison to Sony's. There may be some wishful thinking involved here, but really North America is the only territory where the Xbox competes on the same level as PlayStation. In Japan basically everyone buys PS, Microsoft makes 0 effort to cater to that huge market; and in Europe, PS is also significantly more popular than Xbox, although the gap isn't nearly as big as in Japan. The fact that they didn't outsell PS in NA (and in fact probably lost by a fairly large margin) probably means that the console wars have started very badly for them.

Still it's not quite the spectacular failure I was hoping for. I suppose it was too much to hope that enough people could put aside their instant gratification in order to stick it to Microsoft.

 

[Drauger]

Meh, I hoped people would know better but I kind of also knew this would happen, I guess I'll wait for Dark souls 2 to come out to get a ps4 prolly , unless I see something to make me change my mind about the xbone, anyway found this on another site:


That sound..... it just makes me sick .....

 

[Dragonbums]

I'm disappointed. I wanted to see this thing crash and burn.

To be honest, I think these figures arent't that great for MS at all, in comparison to Sony's. There may be some wishful thinking involved here, but really North America is the only territory where the Xbox competes on the same level as PlayStation. In Japan basically everyone buys PS, Microsoft makes 0 effort to cater to that huge market; and in Europe, PS is also significantly more popular than Xbox, although the gap isn't nearly as big as in Japan. The fact that they didn't outsell PS in NA (and in fact probably lost by a fairly large margin) probably means that the console wars have started very badly for them.

Still it's not quite the spectacular failure I was hoping for. I suppose it was too much to hope that enough people could put aside their instant gratification in order to stick it to Microsoft.

Then again, I know some people in real life who honestly do not give two shits about Microsoft and their online tether policies.

They just want the games.

 

[Korten12]

One million units worldwide?

That's pretty sad man.

Fire Emblem: Awakening made more sales than that. And that's a pretty niche Nintendo game.

That bad PR is really nicking them.

I am not the biggest fan of Microsoft but yeah your comparing a what... $40-$50 game to a $500 dollar system. Not exactly fair.

 

[Dragonbums]

One million units worldwide?

That's pretty sad man.

Fire Emblem: Awakening made more sales than that. And that's a pretty niche Nintendo game.

That bad PR is really nicking them.

I am not the biggest fan of Microsoft but yeah your comparing a what... $40-$50 game to a $500 dollar system. Not exactly fair.

I wasn't talking about in terms of money raking in.

I'm only talking about it purely in units sold.

 

[Brian Tams]

Good. A market dominated by Sony is a poor market indeed. Competition is a necessity in order to keep companies straight.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'm disappointed. I wanted to see this thing crash and burn.

To be honest, I think these figures arent't that great for MS at all, in comparison to Sony's. There may be some wishful thinking involved here, but really North America is the only territory where the Xbox competes on the same level as PlayStation. In Japan basically everyone buys PS, Microsoft makes 0 effort to cater to that huge market; and in Europe, PS is also significantly more popular than Xbox, although the gap isn't nearly as big as in Japan. The fact that they didn't outsell PS in NA (and in fact probably lost by a fairly large margin) probably means that the console wars have started very badly for them.

Still it's not quite the spectacular failure I was hoping for. I suppose it was too much to hope that enough people could put aside their instant gratification in order to stick it to Microsoft.

Then again, I know some people in real life who honestly do not give two shits about Microsoft and their online tether policies.

They just want the games.

And therein lies the problem. How much shit are we going to put up with for the sake of the games before we finally agree to stick it to these companies and show them that there are consequences to having shitty business practices and making shitty business decisions?

 

[chozo_hybrid]

PS4's not out in my country until end of next week and I know my brother I flat with is getting one, and it's sold out almost everywhere so that number of sales once released everywhere will probably dwarf the Xbox One sales.