Xbox One was the best selling console in July – IGN Portugal

The Xbox One, Microsoft was the console that more units sold in July in the US, dethroning the PS4, Sony, the place that has long occupied.

in the Microsoft statement before the public revelation next week, figures from the NPD Group, the company boasted its console, saying that he is “honored by the fact that the Xbox One has been the best-selling console in the United States “during this month, and the number of hours the players spent with the console, around the world,” rose 18%. ” over the same period last year.

The last time the Xbox One held the top spot in the NPD was in October 2015. Sales of the console, by then, were boosted by sales of Halo 5: Guardians, but from there, Sony recovered the first of sales figures from NPD Group and there did not come back out, so far

last month, we learned that. console sales fell 42% over the same period last year.

the NPD Group, which tracks the number of sales of both hardware and related gaming software, has recently changed the way reports its monthly results. From last month, digital sales began to enter the monthly report accounts and the date of revelation of these numbers to the public has also changed from the second to the third Thursday of each month.

Microsoft is optimistic about the future, noting that the 2TB launch issue of its new Xbox One S “sold in the UK and almost too exhausted in the United States.”

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Abilio Rodrigu s [of Rivia] is the editor technology of IGN Portugal, confessed music lover, enthusiast gaming on the PC and Champion Football Europe. You can follow him on @KaikaneTR

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