And Microsoft believes "brand loyalty accumulated successful the 'console wars'" means "PlayStation volition proceed to person a beardown marketplace position".

New tribunal documents person confirmed that Sony's PS4 console sold "twice arsenic many" units arsenic Microsoft's Xbox One during last-gen's "console wars".

Confirmation comes via Brazilian tribunal papers wherein Microsoft is defending its acquisition of Activision Blizzard successful beforehand of the Brazilian contention authority, CADE.

As spotted by GameLuster and translated via Google Translate - truthful carnivore with me; this whitethorn not beryllium a 100 per cent word-for-word translation - leafage 17/18 (paragraph 46) of Microsoft's ain published tribunal papers authorities that "Sony has surpassed Microsoft successful presumption of console income and installed [sic] base, having sold much than doubly arsenic galore Xbox [One units] successful the past generation".

Back successful January, Sony confirmed that much than 116m PS4 consoles person present been sold worldwide, and precocious gave a beingness income full of 117.2 million, making it 1 of the astir palmy consoles of each time, if not rather eclipsing its astir fashionable system, PS2. And portion Microsoft has been much reticent astir its income figures, if the claims successful the Brazillian tribunal papers are right, that means Microsoft's Xbox One strategy could person sold astir fractional that amount: determination successful the portion of 50-60 million.

Interestingly, the ineligible paperwork besides gives america penetration into Microsoft's ain perceived marketplace position, and its tendency to propulsion the "gamer-centric" Xbox Game Pass alternatively than vie straight against Sony's new-gen hardware, refuting claims that the "inclusion of Activision Blizzard contented successful the Xbox Game Pass catalogue would correspond a 'tipping point' successful the market".

Microsoft besides details its deliberate determination to "mov[e] distant from a strategy of 'device-centric' concern towards a much consumer-centric" oregon "gamer-centric" service, similar its subscription.

It besides specifically uses the word "console wars", intimating that "due to marque loyalty", Xbox is improbable to vie successfully with Sony's hardware adjacent successful the next/current-gen rhythm arsenic "PlayStation volition proceed to person a beardown marketplace position".