{"id":678311,"date":"2026-04-05T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-one-sales-half-of-ps4-says-microsoft"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:06:39","slug":"turns-out-xbox-one-sales-were-less-than-half-of-the-ps4s-says-microsoft-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/turns-out-xbox-one-sales-were-less-than-half-of-the-ps4s-says-microsoft-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4&#8217;s, says Microsoft itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/turns-out-xbox-one-sales-were-less-than-half-of-the-ps4s-says-microsoft-itself.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>In 2016 <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> stopped reporting sales figures of the Xbox One, but recent documents from the company have confirmed how little the console sold compared to the PS4.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember the early days of the Xbox One, they were a bit of a disaster due to some poor early decisions (that were admittedly quite quickly backtracked), and three years after its release in 2016 Microsoft stopped reporting sales figures. But now as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/15\/23306068\/microsoft-xbox-one-sales-lifetime-versus-ps4-sales\">The Verge<\/a>, in some <a href=\"https:\/\/sei.cade.gov.br\/sei\/modulos\/pesquisa\/md_pesq_documento_consulta_externa.php?HJ7F4wnIPj2Y8B7Bj80h1lskjh7ohC8yMfhLoDBLddYr8T4vFoqwZRbmcxSi24V7Yg26FofKf3rtg4pQ5AQV9rEvExlCLNXEnZZiVoz1YTrC99XnlLdP7d0qkoFhPMwv\">documents<\/a> filed to Brazil&#8217;s national competition regulator, Microsoft has admitted Xbox One sales figures were less than half of the PS4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and installed base, having sold more than twice as many Xbox in the last generation,&#8221; said Microsoft, as translated from Portuguese by The Verge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-one-sales-half-of-ps4-says-microsoft\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-one-sales-half-of-ps4-says-microsoft\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016 Microsoft stopped reporting sales figures of the Xbox One, but recent documents from the company have confirmed how little the console sold compared to the PS4. If you remember the early days of the Xbox One, they were a bit of a disaster due to some poor early decisions (that were admittedly quite quickly backtracked), and three years after its release in 2016 Microsoft stopped reporting sales figures. But now as reported by The Verge, in some documents filed to Brazil&#8217;s national competition regulator, Microsoft has admitted Xbox One sales figures were less than half of the PS4. &#8220;Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and installed base, having sold more than twice as many Xbox in the last generation,&#8221; said&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/turns-out-xbox-one-sales-were-less-than-half-of-the-ps4s-says-microsoft-itself\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[134,99,60],"class_list":["post-678311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-one"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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