Goodbye to Xbox One: Microsoft discontinues production of its old generation forever

Despite the semiconductor crisis, companies have continued to manufacture consoles, both new and old generation. So far, as Microsoft has decided it’s time to focus on the Series X and Series S.

It came out in 2013 and since then Microsoft has released a new version every 3 years or so. We had the Xbox One, the Xbox One S, and the Xbox One X. Just like we saw on PlayStation with its PS4, PS4 Slim, and PS4 Pro.

For Microsoft, this generation ended up being a success despite its bad start (85 million sales), partly thanks to how well both the One S and One X worked and the great service that is Game Pass, the main claim of the game-on-demand company for a monthly subscription.

Now, with the new generation on the move, Microsoft has decided that after 9 years of life it’s time to stop making Xbox One, regardless of whether they are the basic model (Xbox One S) or the most powerful model (Xbox One X).

“To focus on Xbox Series X / S production, we stopped manufacturing all Xbox One consoles at the end of 2020“, confirmed today Cindy Walker, senior director of marketing of Xbox, in a statement sent to the media. The Verge.

Microsoft’s confirmation comes, curiously, at the same time as a Bloomberg report that suggested that Sony had planned to end PS4 production by the end of 2021 but that, due to the lack of chips, the company had changed its mind to make one million PS4 in 2022.

Actually, if you look at the statements of the head of Xbox, what they are telling us is that during 2021 no Xbox One was manufacturedInstead, what was being sold was the remaining stock in the stores.

And now what we have is the confirmation from the company itself that they have not allocated resources during 2021 or in 2022 to the manufacture of a past generation, although the Xbox One X continues to perform very well in games. current.