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PlayStation 4 and Xbox One console sales are 44% higher than PS3 and Xbox 360 sales were at the same point in their lifecycle, EA COO Peter Moore has revealed.
Moore discussed the figure during the publisher’s Q1 earnings call last night, explaining that software sales too are slightly higher than they were during the last generation.
“We’re now 20 months in and if we go like-for-like on the previous generation, we’re up 44% installed base hardware versus where we were Xbox 360, PS3, et al,” he said. “And our attach rate for software is slightly ahead as well. When correcting for full-game downloads, digital full-game downloads and hardware bundles, we’re at 6.1% right now versus 5.9% in the same period in the previous generation.”
The two consoles are on track to achieve 49m sales between them by the end of 2015, Moore says.
Sony revealed yesterday that it had sold 25.3m PS4 consoles worldwide since launching the system in 2012. 3m of them were sold between April and June 2015 alone.
Microsoft, meanwhile, announced that it had shipped almost 10m Xbox One consoles worldwide last November. It has not provided an updated figure since.
Source: seekingalpha.com
