{"id":55905,"date":"2014-04-18T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T07:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55905"},"modified":"2014-04-18T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T07:29:47","slug":"microsoft-xbox-one-sales-hit-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/55905\/microsoft-xbox-one-sales-hit-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Xbox One sales hit 5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp has sold over 5 million Xbox One video game consoles to retailers since its launch in November, the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the U.S. software company said Xbox One sales had crossed three million as of the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The console went on sale on November 22 in 13 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, a week before rival Sony Corp&#8217;s PlayStation 4 was released.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said on Wednesday it sold over 7 million PlayStation 4 units as of April 6 and is struggling to keep up with consumer demand.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Xbox<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft lines up more TV projects for Xbox One\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/46170\/microsoft-lines-up-more-tv-projects-for-xbox-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft lines up more TV projects for Xbox One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft announces Xbox One price, launch date\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/39750\/microsoft-announces-xbox-one-price-launch-date\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft announces Xbox One price, launch date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft Xbox One: what to expect\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/38864\/microsoft-xbox-one-what-to-expect\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Xbox One: what to expect<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Microsoft unveils Xbox One console\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/38338\/microsoft-unveils-xbox-one-console\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft unveils Xbox One console<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp has sold over 5 million Xbox One video game consoles to retailers since its launch in November, the company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,169,5904],"class_list":["post-55905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55908,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55905\/revisions\/55908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}