Putting Microsoft’s cratering Xbox console sales in context

Enlarge / Scale is important, especially when talking about relative console sales. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it made 31 percent less off Xbox hardware in the first quarter of 2024 (ending in March) than it had the year before, a decrease it says was "driven by lower volume of consoles sold." And that's not because the console sold particularly well a year ago, either; Xbox hardware revenue for the first calendar quarter of 2023...