Sony upped its lead to a six-nil hammering in June, having outpaced the Xbox One with its PS4 for the sixth month in a row.
Microsoft has really gone to town as of late in getting its Xbox One off the shelves, and has for the most part done a damn good job of it too. The genius idea of binning the Kinect sensor and lowering the price by a full $100 worked a treat, with sales volumes pretty much doubling in the immediate aftermath.
Sadly though it wasn’t enough, as just when it looked like Microsoft was about to overtake Sony, the PlayStation 4 romps home with its fourth monthly win in a row. NPD has officially revealed that the best-selling console for June was again the PS4, meaning it’s so far been a clear sweep for the whole first half of 2014.
And it’s not just the Xbox One the PS4 beat out either NPD also suggests that it ran circles around the PS3 and the Xbox 360. It was nice to hear that the Nintendo Wii U had a bit of a better month…not that it’d have taken much…by selling a full 48% more units than in the same month last year. Needless to say, the launch of Mario Kart 8 played a pretty pivotal role in the Wii U’s spike, so it remains to be seen if it can keep up the momentum.
What’s interesting to not however is that while Microsoft has beamed proudly and loudly about Xbox One sales doubling for the month, they weren’t willing to shed any light on the exact figure shifted. Admittedly the same can be said for Sony, which leads the rest of us to assume that the numbers themselves are not exactly worth shouting about.