News

Xbox One Faces Losing Sales War to Nintendo Switch

When the 8th-generation consoles were released, the main talking point was the ‘console war’ between the Xbox One and PS4. A little over 5 years on and it’s pretty clear that Sony’s PS4 has proven to be the winner. I mean, it has outsold the Xbox One at over a 2:1 ratio.

In a report via VGChartz, however, it seems that Microsoft might be set for another defeat. Why? Well, based on sales figures, it seems more than likely that they’re going to be beaten into 3rd place by the Nintendo Switch. A defeat that would be more than a little embarrassing.

Xbox One Set To Lose to the Nintendo Switch

With the Nintendo Switch just reporting sales of over 35 million units, it is only around 7.5 million sales behind the Xbox One. This is, of course, still a substantial gap. Remember though, that the Xbox One has had three whole years longer on the market. Put simply, the Nintendo Switch is catching up fast!

As such, if this trend continues, it’s pretty clear that Microsoft is going to be knocked down into third place in the sales charts. A factor which, considering they were hoping to be number one, is more than a little embarrassing.

Has the Xbox One Been A Failure?

Despite likely finishing in a rather disappointing 3rd-place in the 8th-gen console wars, the Xbox One has been far from a failure for Microsoft. What is clear, however, is that their next console will have to do better.

The Nintendo Switch was (and is) an excellent console, but I doubt anyone at Microsoft would’ve expected it to top the sales of their system. While it hasn’t yet, the writing is almost certainly on the wall. It does, therefore make you think what Microsoft might do to address this with their next console.

If you want to learn more about their next Xbox (Two?) console, you can check out our ‘what we know so far’ via the link here!

What do you think? Are you surprised with these figures? – Let us know in the comments!

Mike Sanders

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

New Report Suggests Helldivers 2 Xbox Release Unlikely

As one of the most popular online games lately, it’s no surprise that Xbox fans…

5 hours ago

November Xbox Game Pass Games Revealed

We've finally reached the month of November, and that means one thing for Xbox users:…

7 hours ago

PS5 Pro Enhanced Games List Revealed

For those who haven't had it on their radar, this week we take a new…

7 hours ago

MSI Overclocker Pushes Kingston Fury Renegade RAM to Record-Breaking 12,196 MT/s

An overclocker from the MSI team has managed to push the Kingston Fury Renegade CUDIMM…

8 hours ago

NVIDIA Pushes SK Hynix to Accelerate HBM4 Production

It seems that NVIDIA wants to launch its next products ahead of time. We are…

8 hours ago

ASUS Unveils New TUF Gaming A2 SSD Enclosure with Enhanced Durability and Speed

The trend of upgrading storage from traditional hard drives to SSDs has become increasingly popular,…

8 hours ago