14 DAY TRIAL // Sony's latest financial report continues the wild success story of the PlayStation 4 console, revealing that the company sold three times more consoles in the last quarter than its direct competitor, Microsoft, did.
According to Sony's report, the company managed to sell an aggregate of 3.5 million PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 consoles (it wouldn't give a platform breakdown) during the three months from April to June.
During the same time period, Microsoft's own internal data revealed that the company only managed to ship, not sell, 1.1 million Xbox One and Xbox 360 systems, in spite of the cut in price to the Xbox One after the removal of the Kinect sensor.
Sony seems to be positioned better than ever in the next-gen race, selling over 3 times more consoles than Microsoft in the last quarter, most of which were most likely PlayStation 4.
This seems to be a role reversal of the situation during the early days of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, when the latter completely dominated the former, so this does not necessarily bode that bad for Microsoft, provided that the Redmond-based company is able to manage the situation right.
The Xbox One crew has changed a lot of things since the consoles' debut, but this time around, the advantage is in Sony's court. The recently announced Xbox One exclusive EA Access program might help even the scales a bit, but only time will tell whether it will prove as successful as the PlayStation Now and Xbox Live Gold services.