Yesterday, we found out that Sony is persevering with PS4 manufacturing thru 2022. It’s a unique state of affairs over at Xbox HQ, as Microsoft has already stopped manufacturing on all Xbox One consoles. This isn’t a brand new thing, either, as Microsoft has discovered that it stopped manufacturing at the very last Xbox One version on the stop of 2020.

That’s what the organisation stated in a declaration to The Verge, at any rate. “To consciousness on manufacturing of Xbox Series X|S, we stopped manufacturing for all Xbox One consoles with the aid of using the stop of 2020,” senior director of Xbox console product advertising and marketing Cindy Walker stated in that declaration.

Microsoft absolutely ended manufacturing of the Xbox One X and the all-virtual Xbox One S in July 2020, some months earlier than the Xbox Series X|S released in November of that year. By the time the stop of 2020 rolled around, the most effective Xbox One console left to stop become the usual Xbox One S, and that’s exactly what Microsoft did.

Normally, we see a honest quantity of overlap among console generations, with platform holders regularly opting to hold manufacturing on their older consoles as adoption in their new consoles rises. Sony is doing this with the PS4, telling Bloomberg the day prior to this that “there’ll constantly be crossover among generations.”

For Xbox, that crossover become very brief. So, why the unique techniques to the brand new era from Microsoft and Sony? There are more than one reasons. For starters, the PlayStation four is one of the best-promoting domestic consoles of all time, being one of the few to promote extra than a hundred million gadgets worldwide.

The Xbox One, with the aid of using comparison, become an underwhelming seller. Microsoft stopped reporting ordinary income numbers partway thru the ultimate era, however the maximum current replace we obtained got here in a November 2021 GQ interview with Phil Spencer, which positioned the whole at fifty one million. That method that the Xbox One offered much less than 1/2 of the whole gadgets that PlayStation four offered in the course of its lifestyles.

So, Microsoft probable stopped generating Xbox One consoles due to the fact by the point the Xbox Series X|S hit shelves, Xbox One income had already slowed considerably. On the opposite hand, Sony probable checked out how nicely the PlayStation four offered in the course of its lifestyles and figured it can get some other couple of years of strong income out of the platform.

But there’s some other – arguably extra compelling – motive for Microsoft to prevent Xbox One income so quickly after the advent of recent consoles, and that’s the Xbox Series S. At $299, the all-virtual Xbox Series S occupies the equal rate factor the Xbox One S used to occupy. The Xbox Series S has additionally been effortlessly available for a great deal of this era already, so with all that during mind, there isn’t a great deal motive for Microsoft to hold generating Xbox One consoles.

Even aleven though it isn’t a surprise, that is nevertheless affirmation that the Xbox One is dead, at the least from a manufacturing standpoint. Of course, Microsoft will probably aid the console for years to come (the Xbox 360 remains supported thru Xbox Live, for instance), however the organisation is carried out making new Xbox One consoles and has been for pretty a few time.