{"id":106589,"date":"2016-10-04T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106589"},"modified":"2016-10-04T09:12:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T07:12:32","slug":"this-is-why-xbox-one-sales-increased-by-1000-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/106589-this-is-why-xbox-one-sales-increased-by-1000-in-a-week","title":{"rendered":"This is why Xbox One sales increased by 1000% in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The September console sales results are in and Xbox One stormed into first place, according to a report by MCVUK<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But they didn’t just finish first, Xbox consoles dominated the opposition finishing with a 1000% increase in sales week on week.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the PlayStation 4 had a relatively quiet September as a whole, so what is it that caused Xbox One sales to spike so dramatically?<\/p>\n

The Xbox One S.<\/p>\n

The console, which now retails at the same price as its predecessor, not only sports a much smaller, sleeker chassis, it offers a better hard drive, a new controller, 4K output, and even slightly better performance in games.<\/p>\n

This has also had a knock-on effect with older stock, as retailers scrambled to clear shelves by offering the older Xbox One at much lower prices.<\/p>\n

September also saw two big Xbox “marquee” releases, Forza Horizon 3 which is a Microsoft-exclusive, and FIFA 17, which has heavy ties with Microsoft including special features that only appear in the Xbox version of the game.<\/p>\n

There’s still more to come too, with Gears of War 4, Halo 6, Dead Rising 4, State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3 all being experiences you can only play on Windows 10 platforms.<\/p>\n

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Here’s why Microsoft had a very, very good week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22485,18473,241,10065],"class_list":["post-106589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-22485","tag-increase","tag-sales","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106597,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106589\/revisions\/106597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}