San Francisco, August 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Microsoft has finally admitted that Sony PlayStation4 has funneled its Xbox One game console in terms of sales and installed base.
Documents submitted to Brazil’s national competition regulator revealed those numbers, reports The Verge.
“Sony has overtaken Microsoft in terms of console sales and installed base, having sold more than twice as many Xboxes in the last generation,” Microsoft said in those filings.
Microsoft hasn’t revealed Xbox One sales figures since 2016.
Sony is also no longer reporting PS4 shipments and its lifetime sales figures remain at 117.2 million.
According to the documents, Microsoft sold less than around 58.5 million units of Xbox One consoles.
Microsoft seems to be closing the gap with its Xbox Series S/X consoles.
According to Ampere Analysis, “Sony ended 2021 with cumulative PS5 sales reaching 17 million units, approximately 1.6 times the sales performance of the Xbox Series.”
Late last month, Sony warned of declining sales of its PlayStation (PS) game consoles, while cutting its full-year profit outlook, as it closed its $3.7 billion acquisition. dollars from Bungie, the developer of Destiny and the hugely popular Halo franchise.
Sony revealed it shipped 2.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its June quarter, up just 4% from the 2.3 million shipped in the same period last year.
PS5 lifetime shipments have now reached 21.7 million.
Microsoft said earlier that it expects revenue to decline in the low-to-mid numbers, due to the decline in first-party game content on Xbox consoles.
In its June quarter, games revenue was down 7% and 5% in constant currency.
Source: IANS
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