PlayStation 4 sales reach 4.2 million, outselling Xbox One by 1.2 million units in 2013

Sell-through to retailers doesn't mean anything. We all know XBones are collecting dust on shelves while PS4s are still getting snatched up about as fast as Sony can make them.

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This was expected considering Xbox won't sell in one of the gaming industry's largest market: Japan. So what if PS4 is in 48 countries and Xbone is in 13. It's peanuts compared to NA, UK and JPN markets.

Xbots you were so wrong and funny thing is hardcore facts are the best muzzle. Their voices....are.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................fading.

So now GameSpot are getting into the habit of publishing essentially the same article twice under two different titles? This article had the same basic information as the software sales article.

Whichever system people are buying if they are enjoying the games than that is all that really matters. I am actually amazed that Sony managed to sell so many games with only 2 exclusives. Sort of speaks to the errors the Xbox team made during the initial announcement, well or more-so how stupid people don't comprehend new ideas well. Either or good for Sony and me, since I have both - booyah!!!

Nice. Now all of those saying console gaming is dead can hush now.

Aaaaannnddd.... the countries remaining are all asian countries...they wouldnt buy a xbox even if their lives depended on it....congrates sony...you guys deserve all this for your ernest efforts.

Good news all around. The more consoles on the market, the more support they will get. We may get more games this gen then last.

Shit. I better sell my org. ps3. The value will drop once this psNow crap drops out.

" There are now more than 7 million combined next-generation systems on the market."
Oh, isn't wii u next-gen?

Just got sold out in Portugal. It's nice to see that despite the economic crisis, people still manage to sort out their priorities and spend more on the essentials.

OMG! PS4 SOLD 1 MILLION MORE UNITS THAN XBOX ONE! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?! I THOUGHT THESE CONSOLES WERE SUPPOSED TO SELL THE SAME AMOUNT!!! Get the **** outta here. Is this really news? Tell me these fuckin journalist aren't really reporting that one console sold 1 million more than another? This is ridiculous. The funny part is according to these same journalist, the lead was supposed to be much greater than this before the consoles launched. These guys are fuckin wastes

if sony can stream all past games, or atleast most of them, it'll officially ahve the most games on a console... ever...

I remember on launch day that there were reports that there were 3.3 million pre-orders and what not that had yet to be fulfilled. and we all laughed and figured that it was just people who were on the waiting list and that demand for the actual system wouldn't be that high..........

apparently, we were wrong. very wrong

It's Great to see the next gen consoles selling but i have to say well done to Sony the PS4 has done remarkably well considering the stock shortages although it would still be 4.2M if they only released in the same countries (demand is high in the US and UK and some have not yet received their pre orders) as the Xbox one you can only sell what you can manufacture the amount of countries it's released in, perhaps if Microsoft released the Xbox one in more countries may be the Xbox one would have the same problems, Sony had and would have over 4M but that still would not stop the trolls oh well happy Gaming everyone.

Great sales numbers for both consoles, especially the PS4. What it means is that the next-gen install base will reach the point soon where game developers will be able to use more resources to produce exclusive content for next-gen and stop having to make multplat cross generational games to ensure they make a profit from the last gen. I just hope that the Xbox One can hold up its side of the bargain as sales for it seem to have slowed in the past couple of weeks (at least here in the USA where supply seems to have out stripped demand.) MS needs to get its shit together and use some of the extra supply they have sitting on the shelves and on-line to launch in some more countries. Some people are wondering how Sony is managing to sell so many PS4s when they are so hard to find. Well, imo, launching in more countries is one part of the equation, supply is another (4.2 million is a lot of supply,) and finally some of those numbers are coming from the backlog of pre-orders still being filled

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Good to see they are both doing well. Let's see if I pick them both this time. But Wii U will be my next purchase.

PS4 got sold out so fast here all sold out in like 12 hours xbox one never got sold out until a few days till christmas. glad I preordered the PS4 no more in stock till march. PS4 will keep the better sales its just a much better console