The console wars continue to rage, but Sony’s PS4 is having no trouble maintaining its sales advantage over the Xbox One, according to recent data from both companies. To date, the PS4 has sold more than 7 million units while the launch of Titanfall pushed the Xbox One to just 5 million units.
Sales of new PCs have declined for eight straight quarters, but new reports this week from IDC and Gartner show that the losses may finally be leveling off. The saturation of the tablet market the upgrades from millions of Windows XP users paint a slightly brighter picture for the PC industry in 2014.
Sony’s PlayStation 4 is kicking the Xbox One’s butt worldwide when it comes to overall sales, but Microsoft’s console finally regained some ground in the U.S. last month, with sales of both consoles nearly equal according to a new NPD report.
Early reports indicate that Sony has hit it big in its home country, selling more than 322,000 PlayStation 4 consoles during its first two days on the market. That’s more than three times the number of PlayStation 3 consoles that the company sold during its first two days in the country back in 2006.
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Sony announced impressive sales numbers for its PlayStation 4 console on Tuesday. The company reports that it sold over 4.2 million units as of the end of 2013, putting it well ahead of its primary rival, the Xbox One. It also sold more than 9.7 million games during the same period, including both retail and download purchases.
Microsoft announced Monday that more than 3 million Xbox One consoles had been sold as of the end of 2013, beating the expectations of many industry watchers. While no official data exists yet for rival PS4, analysts believe that Sony’s console still maintains a small lead in overall worldwide sales.
Singer Beyoncé made headlines last week with the unannounced release of a self-titled iTunes-exclusive album. Apple quickly highlighted it in the company’s iTunes and iOS Music stores, as well as on its website. That extra promotion, coupled with Beyoncé’s popularity, has propelled the album to record-setting sales.
Microsoft announced early Wednesday that the company has sold over 2 million Xbox One consoles since it launched late last month. The total is a record for the Xbox, and only slightly trails sales of the Sony PlayStation 4.
Just as eager gamers are unboxing their brand new PS4s, NPD has video game sales figures from the last full month of the soon-to-be-previous console generation. Game sales were up year-over-year for the third straight month while hardware sales had an expected decline.
Any concerns about Apple’s 2013 iPhone models was quickly laid to rest Monday after the company announced weekend sales of 9 million units, shattering analyst expectations and crushing the iPhone 5′s previous opening weekend sales record.