It’s been a little over two years since the next-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony have been with us, which leads us to wonder How have you been in this time?. Although the companies, as they have stated on different occasions, pursue different objectives, the comparisons are interesting and, in a way, almost inevitable.
The data of the market analysis company Ampere Analysis point out that 30 million PlayStation 5 consoles have been sold since its launch in November 2020. Microsoft, which released the Xbox Series X|S a few days later that year, has sold 18.5 million consoles to date, ranking well behind from the Japanese company.
Sony leading in hardware, Microsoft in subscriptions
In the report, specialists point out that sales of video game consoles fell slightly (7.8%) compared to 2021. Some of the reasons that gave rise to this phenomenon, as they explain, have been the difficulties of manufacturers to meet demand and the delay in the launch dates of certain expected titles.
Certainly, in recent years we have witnessed live how getting a new generation console has been an authentic odyssey marked by waiting lists, overprices or the impossibility of buying only the console, without added games or accessories. The situation, however, seems to be gradually regularizing itself.
Sony, for now, seems to have overcome a large part of the problems that affected the distribution of its console. In fact, the Japanese company has celebrated availability in stores with the release of an ad. Microsoft, for its part, ensures that it is working as fast as it can to ensure the availability of the Xbox Series X | S.
The figures released by Ampere Analysis coincide with the statements of the head of PlayStationJim Ryan at CES this year. The executive announced that Sony had sold more than 30 million units of its next-generation console. The same does not happen with those of Redmond, since since 2015 the company has not revealed its sales figures.
Microsoft has tried to subtract significantly from the number of consoles sold, making a strong commitment to its Game Pass subscription service, a strategy that the hardware market leader has taken a while to adapt to. In fact, the legal intricacies of the Activision Blizzard purchase have left us with some interesting facts about all of this.
According to Sony, which does not welcome Microsoft’s investment of more than 68 million dollars in the video game developer, Game Pass is well above its subscription offer (the new PlayStation Plus) “and is expected to grow substantially in the future.” future”. According to the Japanese, Microsoft’s subscription offer already reaches 29 million.
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