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US Xbox sales reportedly fall by one-third

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Claim

The newsletter reports a 33% decline in US Xbox sales to their lowest level since launch, in the context of higher memory costs.

Reported metric: fell 33%

Reporting date: 2026-10-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 13 issue (www.tomshardware.com)

Original summary of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 13, 2026 reporting. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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US Xbox sales reportedly fall by one-third
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-13-xbox-sales
Claim: The newsletter reports a 33% decline in US Xbox sales to their lowest level since launch, in the context of higher memory costs.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-13-2026
- Source linked by the October 13 issue — https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/console-market-craters-as-xbox-sales-crash-33-percent-to-the-lowest-since-launch-25-years-ago-ps5-sales-drop-25-percent-steep-price-hikes-push-series-x-to-usd800-and-ps5-pro-to-usd900
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