For the uninitiated, the eighth generation console war has followed much the same path since it began - PlayStation 4 Sony capitalizes not only on its technically superior materials and exclusive content, but the constant stream of Microsoft PR escaped before and after an Xbox launch. Since its launch, the PS4 was soundly head of Xbox in both hype and sales - the Sony console was even more fun to try to break. In his statement today on the quarterly results, Microsoft revealed that it sold 6.6 million Xbox consoles during the holiday quarter - about 2.5 million consoles that Sony PS4s moved during the same period. Microsoft Xbox One turn around?
Microsoft has posted a turnover of $ 26.5 billion but Xbox sales and net income decreased year by year. Back in the second quarter of Microsoft, he revealed that it sold 7.4 million Xbox consoles, but disclosed that the number was divided between 3,900,000 Ones Xbox and Xbox 360 3500000. This time, Microsoft used the same vague formulation of "Xbox consoles," but did not provide a detailed split. He, however, argue that the PS4 Xbox One earned during this period of time, so you might assume that the Xbox managed to sell around at least 4.2 million units. It would not be unlikely for the rest of this number 6,600,000 to be filled with Xbox 360.
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Sales are sales, but apart from the mysterious absence of delimitation between Xbox and Xbox 360 A sale, some other factors are involved. Microsoft has dropped the price of the Xbox One from $ 399 to $ 349 twice in the last month, which was already down $ 499 price tag of the original unit. Meanwhile, agnostics console that were part of the PS4 peak sales can now be settled in and pick up the rival platform to ensure that they do not lack exclusives.
On the software side of things, Microsoft is doing well - thanks in large part to the acquisition of $ 2.5 billion Minecraft developer Mojang, and the release of Halo responsible nostalgia: The Master Chief Collection and 2. Despite Microsoft Forza Horizon falling behind Sony in the console war numbers - almost in half if you believe that some counts - its numbers themselves are not bad, far, just from the competition. With huge new potential markets open doors for Microsoft, and with his (mostly) Xbox Live Gold possibly loved arrive on other platforms, there is still much room for Xbone to grow, despite the nickname love again -dire.