Microsoft touted its Xbox One sales numbers yesterday, announcing that over 5 million Xbox Ones have been shipped to retailers worldwide so far. That is not up to the 7 million PlayStation 4 units that Sony has sold so far, and the difference is even greater when you consider that PlayStation 4 numbers reported by Sony are actual sell-through (units in the hands of consumers) versus Microsoft’s Xbox One numbers, which are sell-in (units sold to retailers, not necessarily sold to customers yet).
Microsoft noted that it sold 311,000 Xbox One units in march, with global Xbox One sales outpacing the Xbox 360 by more than 60 percent at the same time after launch. “Even more important to us is how much fun you are having on Xbox One,” said Xbox corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi. It’s amazing that Xbox One fans are spending an average of five hours per day on Xbox One and collectively have totaled more than one billion hours of time spent in games and apps on the console.”
Source: GamesIndustry International
