Worldwide sold over 2 million Xbox One

In its press release today, Microsoft shared the good news with reporters: in the first 18 days from the start of sales, 2 million Xbox One packages were sold worldwide.

For Microsoft executives, this is truly a huge accomplishment, especially after a series of difficulties that they had to face during this year. First, the unsuccessful May presentation, then - the departure of the head of the Xbox One unit from his post, a wall of misunderstanding between the company and consumers, too high a price compared to the main competitor of the Playstation 4 - luck turned away from the Redmond company. Now, when all the difficulties are left behind, and people are actively buying the new Xbox One in stores, Microsoft employees can finally breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the previous Xbox 360 console, which was released in November 2005, took three full months to reach 2 million sales.

“We are still impressed by the positive feedback from our fans and are excited to see the record sales pace of the Xbox One. At the moment, more than 2 million devices are sold worldwide, and in all 13 countries where the console came out, demand exceeds supply. Xbox One is already sold out in most retail chains. We also note that users are interested in a large selection of games and entertainment applications available on our platform. To date, more than a million transactions have been completed on the Xbox Live network service, ”said Yusuf Medi, corporate vice president of marketing, strategy and business for Xbox.

We remind you that on December 3, Sony also reported on its sales in the main markets of the world. The Japanese giant has sold more than 2.1 million of its consoles and is currently struggling to cope with a huge deficit, as the consoles literally sweep the shelves of the largest resellers and online stores. Sony Playstation 4 went on sale in the United States and Canada on November 15, and on November 29 it began to be sold in Europe and Australia, covering in general the markets of 32 countries of the world. In December, the PS4 should appear for the first time in Chinese stores, and on February 22, 2014, sales of the console in its homeland, Japan, will begin. Xbox One went on sale on November 22 at the same time in 13 countries: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Austria. Judging by the frequent rumors on the Web, Xbox One may appear on the territory of other countries not earlier than the second half of 2014, but Microsoft management refuses to comment on this information.

"The demand for gaming devices of the new generation is still very high," said John Love, director of gaming at Amazon. “At the peak of demand, customers ordered more than 1,000 Xbox One devices per minute on Amazon.com.”

We wish good luck to the team that developed the Xbox One and congratulate them on the fact that the console they have created has achieved such success in the market. For any of the two consoles, we would not hurt, as consumers are very beneficial to us such a competition between Sony and Microsoft. After all, it is in competition that the most convenient services, low prices and high-quality games are born. And this is the most important thing.

Based on xbox.com

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