As part of its Q1 financial report, games publisher Ubisoft revealed that Sony's PlayStation 4 accounts for the bulk of its worldwide software sales. The PS4 is beating not only Microsoft's Xbox One but also the larger install bases of the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
During the three-month period between April and June, the PS4 represented 27 percent of Ubisoft's software sales, versus 23 percent for PC and just 11 percent for the Xbox One. Notably, Xbox One software sales are down from the 14 percent share of Ubisoft's previous Q1 results, failing to surpass those of the Xbox 360 and PS3, both of which accounted for 11 percent of sales each. These figures suggest that the Xbox One still trails the PS4's install base by around two-to-one.
While Ubisoft's software sales aren't indicative of the games industry as a whole, Microsoft will no doubt be disappointed to see its latest console still not generating higher sales than its old one. Worse is that those figures come despite Ubisoft’s biggest game of the past six months, Assassin’s Creed Unity, not shipping on last-gen systems.
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