After years of mystery, Microsoft reveals Xbox One sales are lagging far behind PS4

A document submitted to Brazil’s national competition regulator shows that the PS4 has sold more than double the Xbox One.

Not surprisingly, Xbox’s latest financial report made no mention of Xbox’s business performance. Xbox One. But it should be noted that Microsoft stopped giving us sales data for its old-gen console in 2016, and despite estimates that the PS4 shipped twice as much as the Xbox device, this was never reflected in the official statements. Until now.

Sony surpasses Microsoft by selling more than double the Xbox in the previous generationmicrosoftBecause, as reported by The Verge, Microsoft sent a document to the Brazilian national competition regulator where the mystery was finally revealed: “Sony has outpaced Microsoft in terms of console sales and installed base. more than double the previous generation Xbox“, reads the report written in Portuguese.

In this way, everything indicates that the final sales of the Xbox One are approx. 58.5 million unitsWe already know that the final figures for PS4 remain at 117.2 million distributed devices. Additionally, Microsoft’s report also states that “Sony ended 2021 with cumulative PS5 sales reaching approximately 17 million units. 1.6x the sales performance of the Xbox Series“.

However, it should not be forgotten that the new generation Xbox console is being introduced. with more strength more than the Xbox One at the time. All in all, the Xbox Series broke sales records in the US last March, and as an additional milestone, the Microsoft device seems to be doing well in Japan as well.