PS4 Sells More than Xbox One in US Nov Sales

Sony has claimed ‘the largest console launch in history’ as Call Of Duty: Ghosts becomes the best-selling game of last month in America.

The PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One in the US during November, although given that Sony’s console was released on November 15 over there, and Microsoft’s on November 22, that’s not an entirely fair comparison.

According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson the Xbox One remains the fastest-selling console of the month at 101,000 units per day. Which gives a total over nine days of 909,000. (Reported to be exactly 909,132 by VGX’s Geoff Keighley.)

Earlier in the week Microsoft announced that worldwide the Xbox One had sold 2 million consoles in 18 days, but that still puts it below the record-breaking 2.1 million for the PlayStation 4.

Given the split release dates and the fact that the Xbox One is released in fewer countries worldwide than its rival it’s still hard to make any direct comparisons but the fact that the PlayStation 4 did so well in America is of key importance.

The US and UK were the only major markets were the Xbox 360 outsold the PlayStation 3 and Sony now have the early lead in both. Even getting close to the Xbox One in America is an achievement for Sony, especially as the PlayStation 4 gained ‘the highest first month sales of a hardware platform on record’.

As usual hardware sales figures are not released as a matter of course, by they can be estimated from the various clues and statistics given. If the Xbox One sold 909,132 then the PlayStation 4 must’ve done somewhere between that and 1.6 million.

The 3DS was the third best-selling console of the month on around 770,000 (up 15 per cent on last year), with the Xbox 360 on 647,000 (down 49 per cent).

The Wii U is estimated to be around 220,000, a 340 per cent increase on its launch figures last year but depending on what PlayStation 3 sales were still almost certainly the worst selling home console of the month.

According to Nintendo Super Mario 3D World sold 215,000 in eight days, although given there are are no sales figures for the other games in the chart it’s hard to say exactly what that means.

In fact for the top 10 below bear in mind that not only are the American sales charts only every month but they don’t include digital sales or bundles, so they don’t give the most accurate picture you could wish for.

However, you can’t help notice that the top 10 doesn’t include any format exclusives, and according to chart compiler NPD software sales were actually down 24 per cent on last year. As you’d expect hardware sales were up, by 58 per cent, but that meant only a modest market rise of 7 per cent overall.

U.S. all formats chart – November

1 (-) Call Of Duty: Ghosts (360/PS3/Wii U/XO/PS4/PC)
2 (4) Battlefield 4 (360/PS3/XO/PS4/PC)
3 (6) Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (360/PS3/Wii U)
4 (R) Madden NFL 25 (360/PS3/XO/PS4)
5 (-) Grand Theft Auto V (360/PS3)
6 (7) NBA 2K14 (360/PS3/PC)
7 (8) Skylanders: Swap Force (Wii/360/PS3/Wii U/3DS)
8 (-) Just Dance 2014 (Wii/360/PS3/Wii U/XO/PS4)
9 (R) Disney Infinity (Wii/360/PS3/Wii U/3DS)
10(-) FIFA 14 (360/PS3/XO/PS4/PSV)