And yes, it’s happened again – The PlayStation 4 has outsold the Xbox One in its native USA. During the holiday season alone, more than 5.7 million PS4s and 35 million PS4 games were sold through to consumers worldwide.
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Some fans have linked the deployment of firmware update 3.15 for the device with the recent outage that affected the PlayStation Network, but those issues were server related and were probably dealt with at the server level.
Sony confirmed the news and expressed the group’s gratitude in a statement in Geek Wire.
Although there have been brief moments during the PS4’s reign of supremacy where it looked like the Xbox One might be a legitimate contender in console sales figures, for the most part, Sony’s current generation console has enjoyed a lengthy stay at the top, and December was no different. “PS4 also had the strongest third-party software sales in 2015 in the United States, according to NPD”.
Overall, hardware sales fell 6% Y/Y. The holiday sale also broke records with its growth over the years, prompting Nichols to call Xbox One as “the best place for gamers and the only console that has all top 10 best-selling titles of this generation that launched in 2015”. The two newer consoles are collectively selling 47 percent better than the total sales of PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles during their first 26 months on store shelves.
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Microsoft has not yet released a statement regarding the NPD report. It’s the sixth game to sell at least one million copies on Wii U in the US.
