Official Xbox One sales numbers have always been a mystery, but now Microsoft has finally acknowledged the fact that the PS4 has far outsold the Xbox One.
Microsoft stopped reporting Xbox One sales data at the start of fiscal 2016, focusing instead on coverage of Xbox Live’s success. The Xbox One console had problems at launch and no one knew how well it actually sold after that. According to Ampere Analysis , Microsoft’s game console sales ranked third behind Sony and Nintendo products.
The truth was revealed after Microsoft provided data to the Brazilian antitrust regulator as part of an investigation into the purchase of Activision Blizzard . This state body does not hide correspondence with companies on such cases.
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“Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and installs, selling more than twice as many [as it sold] last generation Xbox,” Microsoft admits, translated from Portuguese.
Sony is no longer reporting PS4 shipments with total sales of 117.2 million units as of March. Although Microsoft did not provide figures for Xbox One sales, its admission means the company has sold less than 58.5 million consoles.
This is in line with research conducted by Ampere Analysis in 2020, which found that the Xbox One activation base at the end of the second quarter of 2020 was 51 million units. The Nintendo Switch currently has 111.08 million in all-time sales and is set to overtake the PS4 this year.
However, Microsoft appears to be slowly closing this giant gap with the Xbox Series S and X consoles. Ampere Analysis reports, “Sony ended 2021 with cumulative PS5 sales of 17 million units, roughly 1.6x the sales of the Xbox Series.”
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Sources: The Verge , Ampere Analysis
