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http://www.businessweek.com/articles...e-the-xbox-one

Sales of Microsoft’s (MSFT) new game console, the Xbox One, started strong with some 3 million sold around the world from its Nov. 22 launch to the new year. Since then, though, the consoles have piled up on store shelves. Researcher NPD Group estimates that Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 4, introduced on Nov. 15, outsold the Xbox One in January by at least a 2-to-1 margin in the U.S. And on March 4, Sony announced that the PlayStation 4 has sold 6 million systems and 13.7 million games, including 2.1 million copies of Killzone: Shadow Fall, an exclusive to the PlayStation. Console makers that log big monthly sales typically report them; Microsoft hasn’t so far in 2014.

Now that hard-core fans already have their consoles, “Sony’s going to beat them if Microsoft doesn’t cut price,” Pachter says. Sony spokesman Dan Race declined to talk about the competition.

A lower-resolution version of Titanfall will be available for the older-model Xbox 360 and Windows PCs by the end of March, perhaps limiting the game’s ability to sell Xbox Ones. Above all, the cost of the Xbox One remains a problem, Pachter says. “The competition this week is, let’s have exclusive content,” he says. “Next week the competition will be, how do we compete on price?”


For what it is worth, PS4 consoles are outselling Titanfall on the Amazon top selling list for March right now (6th versus 7th). EDIT: #1 (wow) and #5 respectively now.

It'll be interesting to see how sales look and if they keep cutting the price of the Xbone even further.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers..._bs_tab_t_bsar