According to Microsoft, the gross sales of its Xbox One console had been considerably behind that of Sony’s PlayStation 4. In a sequence of Portuguese court docket paperwork given to Brazil’s nationwide regulator first noticed (and translated) by Game Luster, the Xbox maker stated Sony’s console gross sales far eclipsed its personal. 

For its acquisition with Activision Blizzard to undergo, Microsoft should achieve the approval from regulators around the globe. To achieve approval from Brazil’s regulator, Microsoft needed to make its case to the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE). In its court docket paperwork relationship again to August 9, Microsoft stated that Sony “has surpassed Microsoft by way of console gross sales and put in base, having bought greater than twice as many Xbox within the final technology.”

Microsoft stopped reporting gross sales numbers on its online game consoles again in 2015, throughout which it acknowledged that the PS4 had a “enormous lead” over its console. While the corporate has been extra targeted on giving out numbers for its Xbox Game Pass subscribers, the precise variety of Xbox Ones bought has been a thriller for years. 

Sony not too long ago stopped reporting gross sales numbers for PS4 consoles, leaving the ultimate whole variety of gross sales at 117.2 million as of this previous March. (That stated, it is persevering with to make PS4s to be able to make up for the PlayStation 5 scarcity.) In the identical timeframe, the Xbox One must have bought lower than 58.5 million models.

The Xbox One launched every week after the PS4 in 2013, however suffered from a streak of dangerous PR with regard to its launch value ($499), and preliminary plans to require an web connection to play offline video games, limitations on used video games, and a 24-hour connection requirement. Those plans had been later reversed, and applied into the console by way of a day one patch. 

In 2020, analysts predicted that the Xbox One bought 51 million gross sales throughout its numerous iterations-the base Xbox One, plus the Xbox One S, Xbox One X, and Xbox One S All-Digital. That identical yr, Microsoft quietly stopped manufacturing Xbox One consoles, as a substitute placing all its consideration on the then-incoming Xbox Series X | S, which at present stands because the best-selling Xbox technology. 

Earlier within the month, Sony expressed its fear that Microsoft’s incoming acquisition of Activision can be used to dictate gross sales, significantly for the Call of Duty franchise. “CoD’s community of loyal customers is so ingrained,” stated Sony. “It’s synonymous with first-person shooters and basically defines that class.”