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Last month was a big month for the Xbox One, as Microsoft reported that April’s NPD Group results showed the Xbox One continuing to sit on top in life-to-date software sales. Driving these sales was a game that was not available on any other next-gen console, Titanfall. Popular XBLA title Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition finished fourth.

As usual, Xbox One did not come out on top in console sales, trailing behind Sony’s PlayStation 4. However, life-to-date the Xbox One has more cumulative software units sold than any other eighth generation home console. In its first six months on the market, the Xbox One sold over 76 percent more units than the Xbox 360 did during its debut. Microsoft hopes that sales of the Xbox One will grow even faster with the release of the $399 Kinect-less version releasing on June 9. Continue reading for more highlights and statistics from the NPD Group report.

  • Xbox One continues to average three games sold per console.
  • Combined Xbox One and Xbox 360 sold the most games of all consoles with 2.6 million games sold.
  • Xbox’s software market share was 53 percent for the month of April.
  • Xbox One and Xbox 360 held eight of the top ten spots for console software sales in the U.S.: Titanfall (Xbox One), Kinect Sports Rivals (Xbox One), Titanfall (Xbox 360), Call of Duty: Ghosts (Xbox 360), NBA 2K14 (Xbox 360), Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox 360), Minecraft (Xbox 360) and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (Xbox 360).
  • Xbox One sold 115,000 units in the U.S. during the month of April. Xbox 360 sold 71,000 units.

Update: XBLA Fans initially reported in this story that Xbox One U.S. software sales outpaced those of other next-gen consoles. Upon further inspection, that claim is at best unsubstantiated at this time and at worse erroneous.

Xbox One’s software sales figure for the month of April was 447,000 units. Sony has not released PS4 software sales figures for last month, so there is no way to know for certain who came out on top in April alone. However, Microsoft triumphantly announced that it is sitting at the top of the pile when it comes to cumulative next-gen software sales, failing to mention how it fared in comparison to PS4 or Wii U (the latter of which almost certainly moved less software than Xbox One did in April). Although it cannot be confirmed at this time, it seems likely that the PS4 saw higher software sales than the Xbox One did last month, despite not moving enough games to surpass the Xbox One’s total software sales.

XBLA Fans apologizes for the erroneous nature of our original story, which has since been edited for accuracy.

Source: Xbox Wire