Xbox One S All-Digital flops
According to statistics recorded by
Statista, May 2019 saw the cumulative unit sales of Xbox One consoles hit 42.63 million. In that same month, Microsoft released the Xbox One S All-Digital console, which only increased the total unit sales by 0.36 million to 42.99 million over the next couple of months. While not catastrophic to the company, considering the digital trends of gamers, this will be disappointing. There are many factors to consider here, including the lofty price of digital games noted above, but the main point is that this was an ill-timed release. We are coming to the end of the current console generations of PlayStation and Xbox, with both already unveiling the upcoming next-gen consoles. So, releasing a new, somewhat forward-thinking version of a console this late in the game seems like a misstep.
While the Xbox One S All-Digital may be a flop, it certainly represents the trends of the video gaming public. If the next Xbox console releases as an All-Digital entity, it would likely be a much more accepted bit of hardware. For now, however, there is no need for people to go out of their way to get a new console that cuts them off from physical game copies.
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