Xbox One sales 'quickly catching up' to PS4, EA executive claims

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Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen believes Microsoft is "catching up" to Sony in the current-gen console battle. Jorgensen said during a talk at the UBS Global Technology Conference in Sausalito, California yesterday that "Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think a great pricing strategy" with the PS4.

Shipments for Sony's latest home console reached 13.5 million consoles as of late October, whereas Microsoft reported that shipments of Xbox One consoles hit 10 million globally last week. Jorgensen saw the Xbox One's $50 price cut for the holidays as a tactic by Microsoft that "will continue to pull the consumer into the new consoles." The EA executive estimated that combined sales for the two systems will top 25 million consoles following the holidays.

Posted: Nov 19, 2014 9:37 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/11/19/ea-cfo-microsoft-is-catching-up-to-sony/

Comments

CraigPosted: Tue. Dec 16, 2014

The sales of these consoles mean nothing, each has their fanboys that stick by them no matter what...

It makes no difference to them which sells better.

DivePosted: Sat. Dec 13, 2014

Everyone was agains't the Xbox one at first but now they're following youtubers.

GnarPosted: Fri. Dec 12, 2014

As they should. Xbone is such a better console imo

-GoldCoast-Posted: Fri. Dec 12, 2014

xSHiiFT what i never have understood is the hatred between the console communities. it makes no sense to bicker about which one is better, we're all gamers here.

It's usually just little kids complaining about it with nothing better to do.

-GoldCoast-Posted: Fri. Dec 12, 2014

VHz Word of mouth guys. Keep telling people what you think of your own console and that will affect the sales. Trust me, the amount of people i know who have sold there first (previous gen) console for the other competitor (eg xbox one for ps4 pr ps4 for xbox one) is crazy, only really due to word of mouth. (Price drop is high factor too lol)

Yeah most my PS3 friends sold it to get an xbox one, what ever happened to them hating the XB1? Pretty weird how they change there mind out of no where.

-GoldCoast-Posted: Fri. Dec 12, 2014

I knew this would happen, Wouldn't be too long before xbox catches up to PS4.

ItalianPosted: Sat. Nov 29, 2014

VHz Word of mouth guys. Keep telling people what you think of your own console and that will affect the sales. Trust me, the amount of people i know who have sold there first (previous gen) console for the other competitor (eg xbox one for ps4 pr ps4 for xbox one) is crazy, only really due to word of mouth. (Price drop is high factor too lol)

I got both. I will not be a noob to "trade in" prices. They are terrible

MissPosted: Mon. Nov 24, 2014

I took part in contribution to this.

VHzPosted: Mon. Nov 24, 2014

(Current gen) * not previous

VHzPosted: Mon. Nov 24, 2014

Word of mouth guys. Keep telling people what you think of your own console and that will affect the sales. Trust me, the amount of people i know who have sold there first (previous gen) console for the other competitor (eg xbox one for ps4 pr ps4 for xbox one) is crazy, only really due to word of mouth. (Price drop is high factor too lol)

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