Xbox One and PS4 sell millions, forget some of their promises

January 3rd, 2014, 22:58 Posted By: wraggster

In operation, the retail PS4 is the slightly louder of the two, though the unlucky few whose Xbox One had a faulty disc drive would say different.

Xbox One and PlayStation 4 both sold over a million units in their first 24 hours on sale. Sony was quick to announce even higher figures following the second of PlayStation 4’s staggered launch dates, thanking players for the console’s 2.1 million sales across 32 markets. Some 250,000 PS4s were sold within 48 hours of its UK launch, the fastest-selling console in the region’s history, putting it dramatically ahead of the 150,000 Xbox Ones that sold in the same amount of time.But early figures are a poor indicator of longterm results. The victor in the opening salvo of this generation was decided not by players’ interest, but by manufacturing; Sony beat Microsoft before the queues outside stores even started by putting more consoles on more shelves across more of Europe and North America. Xbox One has made it to 13 countries and PlayStation 4 to 32. One’s international sales figures weren’t made available with any haste, either – almost certainly for fear of a comparison that could only be unfavourable. Better to keep quiet and remind everyone that One sold out, just like PS4.The next 12 months will be more telling. Even Wii U sold out on its US launch day, after all. As shelves fill up with the second and third waves of Xbox One and PlayStation 4 allocations, a new battle will develop and buying decisions will be guided by early adopters’ first impressions.PS4’s start was on paper markedly worse than One’s, its servers collapsing under the strain of the European launch, despite Sony disabling the console’s code redemption capability and What’s New section, ordinarily populated by updates from friends and Sony’s network. Live, meanwhile, stuttered for an hour the day before One’s release, but stayed up throughout the worldwide launch.

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