Xbox One and PS4 sold 1,000 systems per minute on Amazon at peak

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Retailer also reveals that Call of Duty: Ghosts, Just Dance 2014, and GTAV were its best-selling games this holiday.

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were so popular this holiday shopping season on Amazon that at peak, both systems sold at a rate of 1,000 consoles per minute.

Amazon revealed the figures as part of an announcement of its best-ever holiday shopping season. On Cyber Monday alone, shoppers ordered more than 36.8 million items worldwide at a pace of 426 items per second.

The Xbox One and PS4 are neck-and-neck for worldwide sales so far, moving over 2 million consoles each. Sony expects to sell a total of 3 million units by December 31-- now just two days away.

Amazon also revealed its top-selling video games for the holiday period. They were, in order, Call of Duty: Ghosts (Xbox 360), Just Dance 2014 (Wii), and Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox 360).

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Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-and-ps4-sold-1-000-systems-per-minute-on-amazon-at-peak/1100-6416856/

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MawderzPosted:

Solve That's a lot of money those companies are making..

Xbox One's are 429.00 GBP so Microsoft were making 429,000 a minute lol

KatsumiPosted:

MrLane of course i wouldn't have been surprised i hope they make GTA:V for xbox one but not so many exploits i really wanna play that game legit no free billions of dollars!


Hopefully they will release the game for the Xbox One some time this year, it would be pretty cool in my opinion

MrLanePosted:

of course i wouldn't have been surprised i hope they make GTA:V for xbox one but not so many exploits i really wanna play that game legit no free billions of dollars!

Fallout3ismPosted:

That is alot of money for sure.

KatsumiPosted:

Int man that is so hard to believe yet it is a fact..


1000 units a minute for each console is absolutely insane. I didn't quite expect them to do so well in the market

basedtelliPosted:

Damn! That is alot. I am actually surprised by how much they sold for the holidays. That is pretty damn good.

IntPosted:

man that is so hard to believe yet it is a fact..

SolvePosted:

That's a lot of money those companies are making..

1492Posted:

Kex I can imagine what amazon staff must of been like haha


Lots of money, thats for sure haha

MawderzPosted:

I can imagine what amazon staff must of been like haha