EA might have revealed secret Xbox One sales figures

We know that Sony has sold 35 million PlayStation 4s, but Microsoft won’t talk about how well its rival device is doing. A dignified silence is the stance you normally take when things aren’t going too well, but a third party might just have let the key details slip. Eurogamer was listening to Electronic Arts’ most recent conference call when CFO Blake Jorgensen revealed the firm’s internal sales estimate for the current console generation. According to him, there are 55 million units out in the wild, and simple subtraction tells us that less than 20 million of those are Xbox Ones. We asked Microsoft about the figure, and it came back with a “no comment,” as expected.

What does this tell us about the current state of console gaming? Probably not that much, since it was something of an open secret that Sony was “winning” at this point in the console wars. Microsoft’s console was described as a “fast and powerful work in progress” when it launched, while the PlayStation 4 was much more polished. In addition, Microsoft was forced to pull plenty of features at the last-minute after fans balked at its higher price (Kinect) and policies on second hand games. Then again, 15 million consoles is hardly an impossible figure to claw back, and the Xbox One has been improving with every release.

Source: Eurogamer