The good news for Microsoft is that its total share of the worldwide console market hasn't gotten appreciably worse over the last three months. The bad news is that it hasn't gotten any better, either, now that Sony has a bare majority of the three-console market for this generation, according to an Ars Technica analysis.
Sony released its quarterly earnings report this morning, following similar reports from Nintendo and Microsoft earlier in the month. As usual, the numbers show Sony continuing to outsell the competition by a good margin, selling three million PlayStation 4 units over the three months ending in June. Microsoft sold just 1.4 million Xbox consoles (including both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One), while Nintendo sold just 470,000 units of the Wii U during that time period.
(The usual disclaimer about sales vs. shipments here: while the two numbers aren't precisely equivalent, hardware units shipped to stores are usually sold through to consumers within four to six weeks, according to industry analysts. So most units shipped by the end of June have likely been cleared off of store shelves by this point, having little impact on the relative console race. The terms are used interchangeably throughout this piece.)
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