It has taken an unusually long time to get gamers to upgrade from last generation consoles to this one. We recently reported that half of PlayStation 4 gamers are still running last-generation hardware, and we suspect a similar story for Microsoft.
This makes it harder to leave the previous generation which still regularly gets tons of new games, and combined with services like Game Pass, it makes it harder to interpret sales numbers that no longer give the full picture of the status of the gaming world.
In an IGN interview with Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer, we get a good example of this. While we know that the Xbox Series S/X has struggled to compete with the PlayStation 5 in terms of sales, it seems that the number of Xbox gamers is still bigger than ever. Spencer said (transcribed by