Xbox One sells 2 million consoles in 18 days

The best thing about two next-generation consoles practically alongside each other is that we can easily compare them to fuel petty arguments on the Internet. Sony boasted last week that it had sold over 2.1 million PlayStation 4 systems in its first 16 days on sale, and now Microsoft has shared Xbox One sales figures: 2 million consoles sold in 18 days.

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The best thing about two next-generation consoles practically alongside each other is that we can easily compare them to fuel petty arguments on the Internet. Sony boasted last week that it had sold over 2.1 million PlayStation 4 systems in its first 16 days on sale, and now Microsoft has shared Xbox One sales figures: 2 million consoles sold in 18 days.

Microsoft's Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb dropped the number on his blog along with a grab-bag of fun but fluffy statistics. Did you know, might read a video game fact book given to you by a distant relative for Christmas, that 595 million Gamerscore has been scored on Xbox One? You do now.

Xbox One sold 1 million systems on its November 22 launch day, as did the PS4 on November 15. While Sony launched the PS4 first in North America then trickled out to Europe and other places later, making it available in 32 countries now, Xbox One has been in the same 13 countries all along.

With all this not settled, the big question is: who'll fight me behind the bike sheds after school?

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    December 11, 2013 7:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Xbox One sells 2 million consoles in 18 days.

    The best thing that two next-generation consoles practically alongside each other is that we can easily compare them to fuel petty arguments on the Internet. Sony boasted last week that it had sold over 2.1 million PlayStation 4 systems in its first 16 days on sale, and now Microsoft has shared Xbox One sales figures: 2 million consoles sold in 18 days.

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      December 11, 2013 7:42 AM

      keep trying to lie to us, macro$haft.

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      December 11, 2013 7:43 AM

      Alice, you are a sweet little sarcasm machine :D

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      December 11, 2013 8:40 AM

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        December 11, 2013 8:46 AM

        Both consoles are limited by supply.. the truth will be when the post-holiday sales numbers starts coming in.

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          December 11, 2013 8:49 AM

          We'll have to get into at least q2 to get pasted the supply constraints to know what the real adoption rate is. This is also assuming 100% sell thru until then.

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        December 11, 2013 3:24 PM

        Based on what happened in the last gen, that's what I'd bet on too. Except SNE and MSFT will have >100m sales bcs Nintendo will not be able to duplicate the Wii's sales.

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          December 11, 2013 3:28 PM

          Also I wonder if MSFT ever plans on entering the portable market like Nintendo and Sony have. Seems like a tough one to break into now, but it's not like consoles were easy when OG Xbox came out.

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            December 11, 2013 3:30 PM

            Holy shit - how in the hell did Nintendo manage to sell almost 40 million of the 3Ds??? I feel like it was just a few months ago the thing was dying. Guess I wasn't paying much attention.

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              December 11, 2013 5:18 PM

              No, it's been chugging along nicely, but the downside is that it's not doing as well as the original DS. That's not a huge problem, though, a portion of that market has moved to mobile devices and is never coming back. What's important for Nintendo is to maintain it's current performance by continuing to show that they have a much more rewarding experience on their dedicated device.

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                December 11, 2013 5:39 PM

                it's not doing as well as the original DS

                I mean, replicating the highest selling videogame device in the history of the industry is kinda hard.

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      December 11, 2013 9:06 AM

      MORE LIKE M$ XBNONE AMIRITE LOLLLLLLLL!!!!1

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      December 11, 2013 9:30 AM

      How many are replacements for broken ones?

      hah I kid. maybe.

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      December 11, 2013 11:30 AM

      I think this is good news for Sony and Microsoft. The marketshare that MS stole from Sony last gen appears to be a little smaller this gen so far, but it's certainly early.

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        December 11, 2013 3:18 PM

        so a killer Christmas game would be nice!

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      December 11, 2013 3:33 PM

      how many did mancide buy?

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      December 11, 2013 9:27 PM

      I seen 4 Xbox Ones at Walmart, but not a one PS4.

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