The war for the domination of the console gaming industry has been fairly prominent in the recent years. Microsoft’s Xbox One, Nintendo’s Wii U and Sony’s PlayStation 4 being the major players.
But it seems that Sony’s PlayStation 4 has accomplished a bit more than its contemporaries in the business and eventually revenue part. The company has just announced that it has already sold over 40 million copies of its console.
PS4 debuted in 2013 and has been ahead of its chief rival Xbox One since then. Last year’s holiday shopping season seems to have boosted the sales of PS4 as it sold over 5.7 million devices during the fourth quarter thus bringing the sales figure to 36 million copies by the start of 2016.
Even PS4 game sales have risen to more than 271 million copies including retail and digital both.
Earlier in January, Microsoft said that it would not be focusing on Xbox One sales but on the Live membership figures.
Sony is reportedly developing a new and upgraded version of PS4, rumoured to be nicknamed ‘Neo’ and even Microsoft is likely developing two upgraded versions of Xbox One and even Nintendo might come up with their brand new ‘Nintendo NX’ although nothing has been revealed yet.
Sony plans to sell another 20 million copies of PS4 over the next year. It might as well be possible for them easily, given the fact that Sony is coming up with their very own PlayStation VR.
Let’s wait and watch how it all unfolds.