New Sales Figures Of The PS4 and Xbox One! Which One is the Winner?

General news News 01/19/2017

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Despite Microsoft not publishing official sales figures of the Xbox One anymore, we can still somewhat track the performance of the console.

SuperData‘s analysis says that Xbox One has twenty-six million consoles sold by the end of 2016, making it 2:1 outsold in comparison to the PlayStation 4. This difference is still huge despite Microsoft outselling Sony for four months in a row between July and October last year.

Microsoft’s statement says that Xbox Live has forty-seven million active users each month, which means a lot of people have likely upgraded from the 360 while keeping their accounts, and the Windows 10 userbase has to play a role in this number, too. (A Microsoft account is effectively required for that operating system!)

SuperData put PlayStation 4 to 55 million, so if we add the two consoles together, the result is 81 million users (although some households have both consoles, mind you) – this figure is higher than Electronic Arts’ Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jörgensen’s predictions of 80 million by the end of 2016.

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