Sony pushes past 50 percent of the worldwide console market

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Read the whole article here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/analysis-sony-pushes-past-50-percent-of-the-worldwide-console-market/

The good news for Microsoft is that its total share of the worldwide console market hasn't gotten appreciably worse over the last three months. The bad news is that it hasn't gotten any better, either, now that Sony has a bare majority of the three-console market for this generation, according to an Ars Technica analysis.

Sony released its quarterly earnings report this morning, following similar reports from Nintendo and Microsoft earlier in the month. As usual, the numbers show Sony continuing to outsell the competition by a good margin, selling 3 million PlayStation 4 units over the three months ending in June. Microsoft sold just 1.4 million Xbox consoles (including both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One), while Nintendo sold just 470,000 units of the Wii U during that time period.

(The usual disclaimer about sales vs. shipments here: while the two numbers aren't precisely equivalent, hardware units shipped to stores are usually sold through to consumers within four to six weeks, according to industry analysts. So most units shipped by the end of June have likely been cleared off of store shelves by this point, having little impact on the relative console race. The terms are used interchangeably throughout this piece.)

Separating out Xbox One sales from the Xbox 360 in the reported "Xbox" numbers is still an inexact science, but we gave Microsoft's older system an estimated range of 350,000 to 560,000 sales for the three-month period. That's down from the 500,000 to 800,000 range we estimated for the 360 last year at this time, and it parallels a roughly 30 percent drop in second-quarter PS3 sales from 2013 to 2014. This estimate may overstate the staying power of the Xbox 360 slightly—Sony doesn't even list the PS3 as a "key electronic product" in its own earnings, after all—but we think it's good enough for an estimate.
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Indeed, Sony has done well with the PS4. 

Now though they need to turn some attention to the PSN and make some improvements there. (Time to justify that subscription price with improved service and features. Getting some elementary options put in to boot... like having an option to display whether you're signed in or not. Plus having the option so you don't auto sign into PSN when you load your profile. Also trophy checking while offline would be nice.)
 
Sony is winning because they focused on games unlike Xbox who only has a good standing right now thanks to their 360 ( :P) turn around on their Xbox One stance.

I feel Nintendo could easily be in second or first spot had their given a better hardware for their current gen gaming and a better system set up.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Sony is winning because they focused on games unlike Xbox who only has a good standing right now thanks to their 360 ( [emoji14]) turn around on their Xbox One stance.
 
I feel Nintendo could easily be in second or first spot had their given a better hardware for their current gen gaming and a better system set up.
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Nintendo probably could be. They kill it with exclusives, if there system was a little bit more third party friendly chances are they'd be doing a lot better.
 
Martin said:
Sony is winning because they focused on games unlike Xbox who only has a good standing right now thanks to their 360 ( :P) turn around on their Xbox One stance.

I feel Nintendo could easily be in second or first spot had their given a better hardware for their current gen gaming and a better system set up.
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Nintendo probably could be. They kill it with exclusives, if there system was a little bit more third party friendly chances are they'd be doing a lot better.
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Do you think their new president will lead the company is this direction?
 
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