However, if sales were included from hardware bundles, Batman: Arkham Knight would be the highest-selling game. The $4.99 per month subscription program is only available on Xbox One now. The group also stated that the amount has increased 6 percent from PS4’s sales the same time past year.
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In addition to the hardware, Sony also pointed out that PS4 top software sales at all, which means people bought more games for that system than Xbox One or Wii U. That isn’t surprising as the PS4 has a serious lead when it comes to install base.
Xbox marketing boss Mike Nichols said in a statement: “Xbox One and Xbox Live continued to see strong sales and engagement in July”.
The firm’s Xbox One machine is trailing well behind its rival, the Playstation 4, in sales.
NPD said that the new games in the year 2015 made less in the month of May, but now they have started generating real sales figures in the market.
Each month industry experts are given a report that details all of the consoles and software numbers sold from physical retail brick-and-mortar stores within the United States, which are then reported on by sites privileged with that sort of information. Both games are published from Warner Bros. Meanwhile, many game makers have publicly dropped support for older consoles.
And he’s promising games fans a line-up like never before this winter and beyond to try to convince them to give the Xbox One a try too. The Top 10 for July was particularly unusual, with Lego: Jurassic World taking the top spot over Batman: Arkham Knight despite being released roughly 2 weeks prior in June. Callahan suggested this was due to Microsoft’s recent revelation that the Xbox One will be backwards compatible with many 360 titles. This shows how Sony and Microsoft learned from the PS3 and Xbox 360 launches, and improved upon them with the PS4 and Xbox One’s launches.
It’s on Xbox One, and those customers love it. We have analytics on everything these days, and subscriber satisfaction rates are through the roof.
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After 21 months on the market, combined unit sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox One and Sony ‘s (NYSE:SNE) PlayStation 4 are almost 50% higher than the combined sales of the previous-generation consoles, Xbox 360 and PS3, after the same number of months, Callahan said.
