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Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline

9meters.com Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline - 9meters

Xbox faces major challenges as its console sales hit record lows in 2024, and it's not looking any better for 2025. The gaming giant sold an estimated 2.7

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TBH, I can't remember the last time I turned on any of my consoles for anything other than 4K movies.
This generation has just been awful for games, the Covid drop just never recovered.
Will look at Avowed, but not feeling great about it. Dumping games in Jan/Feb generally is not a good look (OTOH you get the occasional Hi Fi Rush instead of Forspoken).
- Just get a switch, the entire crisis about this gen causing a second industry crash is nonexistent over there. We got like six new games for xmas
  
  Or a Steam Deck.
  
  Like 95% of my games now just target SD. Its so easy to work. And it works with emulation, its very open.
- I have been a patient gamer and for the last 2 years with psplus and a library card I have burned through every ps4 title worth playing and decided to finally upgrade to a ps5.
  3 months in and I’m struggling to find games that look good to me. I keep trying unknown titles and they’re meh.
  I can’t believe that years into the ps5 life and I don’t have a backlog of like dozens of ps5 games to play.
- If Avowed is bad I'm going to be really disappointed. I love Pillars of Eternity and played hundred of hours of Grounded.
- There have been so many great games in the last few years that it's been hard to keep up, but they haven't required those new consoles.
- Avowed is reviewing decently, at least. I trust Obsidian
  
  I actually liked outer worlds by them despite how short it was
  
  I didn't hate it, but it just wasn't Fallout: New Vegas, and I walked away a little disappointed after hoping for a new Fallout-like game.
  Some of the major elements from Fallout just weren't there:
  Fallout provided neat perks/traits that substantially-impacted how one played; that's a signature part of the series. The great bulk of the perks in The Outer Worlds were things like small percentage increases. They didn't have a significant impact on how the game played out.
  The weapons didn't "feel" very different other than across classes, with the exception of the "science weapons", so there wasn't a lot of variety in gunplay over the course of a game.
  While the world was open in that one could technically always backtrack, there wasn't much reason to do so.
  Most of the content was in "cities". Yeah, sure, there was wilderness, and maybe that added a sense of scale, but it was mostly just filler between cities. If you're wandering around in Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 4, there was interesting content all over to just stumble into. One only really got that in cities.
  Not a lot by way of meaningful, world-affecting decisions. Okay, you can also criticize Fallout 4 on these grounds, but if you were hoping for a Fallout: New Vegas...
  There were some things that I did like. In particular:
  It was pretty stable and bug-free. The Fallout series has had entrants from a number of teams, but one consistent element has been a lot of bugs at release.
  
  In a lot of ways, I liked it because of how short it was.
  
  Same. Definitely had its limitations but it was decent fun. Figure if they can pull that off on a shoestring budget they can make a great fantasy rpg
- I'm still waiting for enough titles to come out on either platform to make the jump from my Xbox One X.

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