As Microsoft continues in its pursuit to go through with the biggest gaming acquisition of all time, and buy out Activision for $68.7 billion, the company has been having to defend the deal, and essentially prove that going through with it wouldn’t give Microsoft an unfair market advantage.
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This process already revealed that Microsoft apparently believes that Activision don’t have any “must have games”, and has now reportedly uncovered the Xbox One’s sale figures. As reported by GameLuster, a new document claims that the last-gen console sold less than half of what Sony’s PS4 did.
According to GameLuster, translated, the document reads: “Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and install base, having sold more than twice as many [than] Xbox in the last generation.”
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It was just last week that the final sales figures for the PS4 were revealed, which makes working out the rough number of Xbox Ones sold super easy. Sony’s last-gen console sold a whopping 117.2 million units (making it currently the fourth best selling console of all time), which means that there can’t have been any more than 58.6 million Xbox Ones sold. At that number, it’d make Microsoft’s previous-gen device sit at 14th on the best console sales list.
Although it might have sold significantly less than its rival, there’s no denying that the Xbox One was still really successful - it’s still the second best-selling Xbox console ever behind the Xbox 360 (which apparently sold a colossal 84 million units).
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