As first reported by VentureBeat, mean revenue per user is significantly higher on the Xbox One, with the average player spending 25 percent more than the average PlayStation 4 owner. We’ll update the story once we get fresh input from any of the company’s involved.
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In his statement at the Mad Catz earnings call, Chief Financial Officer David McKeon said that the installed base of the new console that was around 60 million represented just a little more than a third of the projected install base of more than 150 million units by the end of 2018. One thing that they show was that PlayStation 4 dominates the sales of their games. That’s a big margin – but it isn’t as large as the worldwide hardware gap. Since their concurrent releases in November 2013, there have been 36,885,091 units of the PS4 and 19,769,314 units of the Xbox One sold.
It’s undeniable that Sony experienced a superior launch this console generation, but it seems that Xbox gamers might be more valuable to game developers and publishers.
Hours ago, the new Minecraft update for PS4 and PS3 went live but unfortunately Xbox owners were kept waiting and there was no comment from the developers.
Instead, we can clearly see that Xbox One has the higher ARPU.
Still, Ubisoft’s revenue split suggests the Xbox One may be more attractive to publishers than its raw hardware sales numbers indicate. The newer consoles now have over 96 percent market share which is up from the 84 percent that it was in January 2015.
Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through…
