• Designed to play your Xbox console and PC games, delivering leading performance and ushering in the next generation of console gaming.
  
  
• Powered by a custom AMD SoC and co-designed for the next generation of DirectX and FSR to unlock what comes next.
  
  
• Plan to ship alpha versions of the hardware to developers beginning in 2027.
  
  
• Starting in April, Xbox mode will begin rolling out to Windows in select markets. It brings a familiar Xbox experience to players while keeping the flexibility and openness of Windows.
  

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Wrote:

I want to thank Phil for his extraordinary leadership and partnership. Over 38 years at Microsoft, including 12 years leading Gaming, Phil helped transform what we do and how we do it.

Phil Spencer Wrote:

Last fall, I shared with Satya that I was thinking about stepping back and starting the next chapter of my life. From that moment, we aligned on approaching this transition with intention, ensuring stability, and strengthening the foundation we’ve built. Xbox has always been more than a business. It’s a vibrant community of players, creators, and teams who care deeply about what we build and how we build it. And it deserves a thoughtful, deliberate plan for the road ahead.

Today marks an exciting new chapter for Microsoft Gaming as Asha Sharma steps into the role of CEO, and I want to be the first to welcome her to this incredible team. Working with her over the past several months has given me tremendous confidence. She brings genuine curiosity, clarity and a deep commitment to understanding players, creators, and the decisions that shape our future. We know this is an important moment for our fans, partners, and team, and we’re committed to getting it right. I’ll remain in an advisory role through the summer to support a smooth handoff.

Asha Sharma Wrote:

My first job is simple: understand what makes this work and protect it. That starts with three commitments. First, great games. Everything begins here. We must have great games beloved by players before we do anything. Unforgettable characters, stories that make us feel, innovative game play, and creative excellence. We will empower our studios, invest in iconic franchises, and back bold new ideas. We will take risks. We will enter new categories and markets where we can add real value, grounded in what players care about most. I promoted Matt Booty in honor of this commitment. He understands the craft and the challenges of building great games, has led teams that deliver award-winning work, and has earned the trust of game developers across the industry.

Second, the return of Xbox. We will recommit to our core Xbox fans and players, those who have invested with us for the past 25 years, and to the developers who build the expansive universes and experiences that are embraced by players across the world. We will celebrate our roots with a renewed commitment to Xbox starting with console which has shaped who we are. It connects us to the players and fans who invest in Xbox, and to the developers who build ambitious experiences for it.

Gaming now lives across devices, not within the limits of any single piece of hardware. As we expand across PC, mobile, and cloud, Xbox should feel seamless, instant, and worthy of the communities we serve. We will break down barriers so developers can build once and reach players everywhere without compromise.

Third, future of play. We are witnessing the reinvention of play. To meet the moment, we will invent new business models and new ways to play by leaning into what we already have: iconic teams, characters, and worlds that people love. But we will not treat those worlds as static IP to milk and monetize. We will build a shared platform and tools that empower developers and players to create and share their own stories.

As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop. Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us.

Matt Booty Wrote:

Looking forward, I’m excited to partner with Asha as our next CEO. Our first conversations centered on her commitment to making great games and the role that plays in our overall success. She asks questions, pushes for clarity, and wants our choices grounded in player and developer needs. That mindset matters as the industry around us is changing quickly: how players engage, how games are made, and how business models and platforms evolve.

We have good reasons to believe in what’s ahead. This organization and its franchises have navigated change for decades, and our strength comes from teams who know how to adapt and keep delivering. That confidence is grounded in a strong pipeline of established franchises, new bets we believe in, and clear player demand for what we are building.

• You only need to name the country in most cases. Guesses that involve areas such as the USA as the answer will require a state as well due to their large size.
  
  
• Sometimes I might be located on an island, or another location that is not itself a country nor within an actual country. If that location is not a country, then I will treat that location as being the country to which it belongs to as a territory. So if I am located on an island that is a territory of Spain, then Spain will be its country. However, in instances like this, the correct answer can also be the exact territory name if that is given before the name of the country that territory belongs to.
  
  
• Although this is a team based effort when it comes to narrowing down the answer, you will naturally get more points if you assist more in narrowing down the answer.
  
  
• Each participant may ask two yes/no questions to narrow down the country per day; however guessing the country/territory/US state itself by name has no limit. Guessing the country/territory incorrectly will not reward points though, due to the fact it has unlimited tries.
  
  
• Asking a yes/no question that results in an answer that notably gets closer to the destination will reward you with 2 points. A yes/no question that results in an answer that does not notably narrow down the answer will reward you with 1 point. Finding the correct country will reward you with 3 points. As an example, if you asked me "Are you located in the continent of Africa?" and I tell you no, that would be worth 1 point because there are still six continents I could be located on. If I were on that continent though, you would have notably narrowed down the answer to get 2 points.
  
  
• If you have suggestions for this game at all I welcome you to share it.
  

• Atari 2600 - 30,000,000 units / Pac-Man - 8,095,586 copies = 26.99%
  

• Nintendo Entertainment System - 61,910,000 units / Super Mario Bros. - 40,240,000 copies = 65%
  
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 49,100,000 units / Super Mario World - 20,610,000 copies = 41.98%
  
• Nintendo 64 - 32,930,000 units / Super Mario 64 - 11,910,000 copies = 36.17%
  
• GameCube - 21,740,000 units / Super Smash Bros. Melee - 7,410,000 copies = 34.08%
  
• Wii - 101,630,000 units / Mario Kart Wii - 37,380,000 copies = 36.78%
  
• Wii U - 13,560,000 units / Mario Kart 8 - 8,460,000 copies = 62.39%
  
• Switch - 154,010,000 units / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 69,560,000 copies = 45.17%
  
  
• Game Boy - 118,690,000 units / Tetris - 35,000,000 copies = 29.49%
  
• Game Boy Advance - 81,510,000 units / Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire - 16,220,000 copies = 19.9%
  
• Nintendo DS - 154,000,000 units / New Super Mario Bros. - 30,800,000 copies = 20%
  
• Nintendo 3DS - 75,940,000 units / Mario Kart 7 - 18,990,000 copies = 25.01%
  

• PlayStation - 102,490,000 units / Gran Turismo - 10,850,000 copies = 10.59%
  
• PlayStation 2 - 160,000,000 units / Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 17,330,000 copies = 10.83%
  
• PlayStation 3 - 87,400,000 units / Grand Theft Auto V - 29,520,000 copies = 33.78%
  
• PlayStation 4 - 113,500,000 units / Grand Theft Auto V - 24,660,000 copies = 21.73%
  
  
• PlayStation Portable - 80,000,000 units / Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - 8,000,000 copies = 10%
  

• Genesis - 30,750,000 units / Sonic the Hedgehog - 15,000,000 copies = 48.78%
  
• Saturn - 9,260,000 units / Virtua Fighter 2 - 2,500,000 copies = 27%
  
• Dreamcast - 9,130,000 units / Sonic Adventure - 2,500,000 copies = 27.38%
  

• Xbox - 24,000,000 units / Halo 2 - 8,460,000 copies = 35.25%
  
• Xbox 360 - 84,000,000 units / Kinect Adventures - 24,000,000 copies = 28.57%
  
• Xbox One - 58,000,000 units / Grand Theft Auto V - 10,980,000 copies = 18.93%
  

• Technically the best selling game for the Wii is Wii Sports, but because it was bundled with a large majority of the consoles I am not counting that as the consoles best selling game.
  
• Oddly, there were no stats for the PS Vita for its best selling game, so I wasn't able to include it here.
  
• Units sold for consoles were based on that actual number where possible, but some had to use units shipped as it was the only given statistic.
  

• PSP has the lowest percentage of any system listed, with its best selling game being only 10% of the consoles total sales.
  
• PS1 has the lowest percentage of any home console, with only 10.59%.
  
• Overall, the worst performing best selling games in comparison to console sales are on PlayStation platforms, with 3/5 of games on the listed systems being only 10-11%.
  
• While Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best selling game of any listed in terms of copies sold, it ranks 4/23 in terms of copies/units percentage.
  
• Nintendo holds the most spots for highest percentages, with NES at #1, Wii U at #2, Switch at #4 and SNES at #5.
  
• While the Dreamcast is the worst selling console in the list and joint lowest copies sold of its best selling game, it still ranks in at 13/23. This particular stat (and Saturn being 14/23) is a key reason I chose to do this, as it demonstrates that despite having the lowest game sales it doesn't have the worst ranking when viewed as game copies vs. console units sold.
  

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• Steam | Steam's best selling games of 2025
  
• Wikipedia | Major Gaming Events in 2025
  
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• The biggest names in the AI industry, including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are buying up DRAM for their data centers in huge amounts. To make matters worse, the big companies that produce this DRAM such as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, are shifting their resources away from consumer-focused products in favor of lucrative deals with these AI companies for DRAM.
  
  
• Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron control 93% of the entire global DRAM market. Any other company has a market share of less than 5%.
  
  
• Micron went so far as to announce they are winding down their long-standing consumer facing brand Crucial in favor of providing DRAM to AI companies.
  
  
• A key component for making DRAM is silicon wafers; however, these wafers are also used for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) which are used heavily by AI companies. Per NAND Research, “wafer capacity consumed by HBM exceeds that of standard DRAM by a factor of three.” Obviously, this further exacerbates the shortage of DRAM as the AI companies don't just require tons of it, but there are also less silicon wafers that can be used to make DRAM.
  
  
• Among the obvious things like consoles and PC's, DRAM is used in practically everything nowadays, including smartphones, smart TVs, and cars. It is basically the backbone of modern computing of any kind.
  
  
• SSD's are also being affected, as AI companies are also buying up data storage for their centers as well.
  
  
• As a result of this increased demand and shift in supply priority, RAM kit prices have increased by 252% from September to December, while the average price for SSD's has seen a 42% increase in the same time period.
  
  
• For some perspective, the Nintendo Switch 2 uses 12 GB LPDDR5X modules which have increased in price by 41%, and NAND flash which has risen by 8%. The likelihood that Nintendo will be able to absorb that increased cost is very low, and could force the company to increase the price of the Nintendo Switch 2.