{"id":71449,"date":"2015-01-16T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71449"},"modified":"2015-01-16T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T09:01:30","slug":"ps4-vs-xbox-one-who-is-the-holiday-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/71449-ps4-vs-xbox-one-who-is-the-holiday-king","title":{"rendered":"PS4 vs Xbox One: who is the holiday king?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the battle of the consoles over the festive season – and it appears that Xbox One is the winner.<\/p>\n

According to the latest stats from the NDP group, Microsoft’s latest console outsold the Sony’s PlayStation 4 in December, continuing from the same trend in November.<\/p>\n

The software giant didn’t miss its gap to boast, saying that weekly average sales of the Xbox One during these months outpaced Xbox 360 by 50% at the same point in its life cycle.<\/p>\n

The console also sold more games than its PlayStation rival over December. The USA is definitely Xbox country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 14 months on the market, cumulative sales of PS4 and Xbox One exceed the Xbox 360 and PS3 cumulative 14 month total by 65%,\u201d NPD said.<\/p>\n

NPD also revealed which games sold the most over the course of 2014 in the US – and you will never guess which game ranked number one.<\/p>\n

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#<\/strong><\/td>\nGame (physical retail)<\/strong><\/td>\nPlatforms (top-selling first)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/td>\n360, XBO, PS4, PS3, PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nGrand Theft Auto V<\/td>\nXBO, PS4, 360, PS3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMadden NFL 15<\/td>\n360, XBO, PS4, PS3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSuper Smash Bros.<\/td>\nNWU, 3DS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nNBA 2K15<\/td>\n360, XBO, PS4, PS3, PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nMinecraft<\/td>\n360, XBO, PS3, PS4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nFar Cry 4<\/td>\nPS4, XBO, 360, PS3, PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nJust Dance 2015<\/td>\nWii, 360, NWU, XBO, PS4, PS3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nDestiny<\/td>\nXBO, 360, PS4, PS3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nFIFA 15<\/td>\n360, XBO, PS4, PS3, Wii, 3DS, PSV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Just kidding, we all saw that coming.<\/p>\n

It’s great to see Minecraft’s staying power, with the open-world blockbuster sticking to the top 10.<\/p>\n

Why should you care about these random stats from the USA? Well, even though this has very little to do with us here in South Africa, it does give a good indication of the overall health of the gaming industry.<\/p>\n

According to the NPD, physical video game sales stateside showed a rather massive decline of 14% in 2014.<\/p>\n

On the flip-side though, hardware sales were up by 20%.<\/p>\n

We must note that NPD doesn’t track digital sales (such as purchases made through Steam, Xbox Live and PSN) which will undoubtedly show a much healthier picture.<\/p>\n

On the whole, everything included, 2014 showed flat growth (1%) in the US’s physical retail video game world.<\/p>\n

I guess now we can call it the Xbox Won?<\/p>\n

I’ll see myself out.<\/p>\n

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Two consoles. One giant, Christmas-themed crown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":59866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,75,1239,10065],"class_list":["post-71449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-npd","tag-playstation-4","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71457,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449\/revisions\/71457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}