Can someone tell me what these numbers mean? I've been checking thus thread for months and all I've seen were these numbers. I've got a xbox one, should I be worried?
They're just tracking customer preferences and trends. No, you shouldn't be worried. Xbox One isn't going to get dumped by Microsoft unless something crazy happens. Although, Microsoft is seriously considering getting out of the console business altogether, so this could be their last console.
I don't think there would be any immediate ramifications if Microsoft sold off it's console business unless it couldn't find a buyer and just spun it off and that spin-off subsequently failed. Even then, the only effect would be a shortened lifespan on your console; but to be honest, these consoles don't have very long projected lifespans to begin with (think 4-5 years instead of 10). Why? Because they are both underpowered.
Steam Machines will likely hit the market and trounce both consoles as older and more seasoned gamers will prefer them as a way to transition into PC-gaming. I think that will signal the
beginning of the end of "console" gaming. Honestly, I think we've got maybe another generation of console gaming left before home PCs, HTPC's, and mobile gaming is simply so commonplace as to have replaced the market for consoles entirely. Why buy an Xbox if your phone can render high-end graphics and your HTPC has a mid-range GPU already?
SteamOS would have happened sooner had Microsoft hadn't sabotaged OpenGL on it's platform. But now, we can see the writing on the wall and both hardware manufacturers (AMD/Nvidia/Intel), major platform makers (Sony, Apple, Nintendo, Canonical), and software development companies (read: all excluding Microsoft) want to use technologies like Mantle to get rid of the platform specific abstraction layer entirely.
Once this happens, that's it for Microsoft Windows Gaming and single console projects (not exclusives, but titles that are limited to a single console due to cost constraints).
If I had to guess, I'd say it's 50/50 this is Microsoft's last gaming console. The Kinect is largely a failure, but I don't think it's going anywhere with Oculus Rift coming to consoles. Either way, I think they'll probably move the Xbox into the HTPC market to compete with Apple there, just as Apple and Google will converge there as well with gaming from digital distribution only (and apps) rather than discs. It's actually a far more profitable business than console gaming. (Google/Apple make 30% on every app and it costs you nothing to distribute).
So yes and no, the numbers are somewhat meaningful. If Microsoft was far and away ahead of Sony right now, then I'd say they could probably justify staying in the console business.