14 DAY TRIAL // The PlayStation 4 from Sony has continued its domination on the current-gen home console market and has once again managed to sell more than the rival Xbox One from Microsoft during the month of August on the very important United States market.
The information comes from the NPD Group, which compiles data from retailers, and NeoGAF says that the company believes that the trend will continue for the foreseeable future.
The company is no longer offering actual retail numbers for the consoles that it is tracking, but an analyst has previously predicted that the PlayStation 4 would move around 175,000 units during August and that the Xbox One would manage to deliver about 150,000 platforms to gamers.
The NPD Group says that at the moment the two devices are selling better than the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 did at the same moment in their own life cycles.
Overall spending on hardware has increased when compared to August 2013, but gamers are at the moment putting aside less money for video game purchases.
Liam Callahan, an analyst with the NPD Group, states, “When lining up sales of PS4 and Xbox One after 10 months on the market the combined PS4 and Xbox One hardware sales are greater by over 70 percent compared to their predecessors.”
The competition is still too close to call
Eight months at the top for the PlayStation 4 might be seen by gamers as definitive proof that the platform will go on to dominate the current generation of home consoles, but it’s very likely that significant new decisions from both Sony and Microsoft will affect the battle in the coming years.
Earlier during the summer, a rumor suggested that the price of the Xbox One might be cut by another 50 dollars or Euro in order to make it more competitive, and the company is also planning to launch a number of exclusive titles.
The big names are Sunset Overdrive, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Halo 5: Guardians.
At the same time, Sony is aiming to improve the range of experience that can be played on the PlayStation 4 and aims to launch a bigger number of indie titles, while also delivering its own exclusives, like DriveClub and Uncharted 4.
Both consoles might also have to deal with increased competition from the Nintendo-made Wii U, which might get a huge boost to its own fortunes after the launch of Super Smash Bros.