{"id":65648,"date":"2014-08-13T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T06:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=65648"},"modified":"2014-08-13T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T06:03:35","slug":"playstation-4-beating-xbox-one-in-console-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/65648\/playstation-4-beating-xbox-one-in-console-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 beating Xbox One in console wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said on Tuesday that sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console, launched in November, has surpassed 10 million units.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Japanese company said it had sold over 7 million PlayStation 4 units as of April 6 and was struggling to keep up with consumer demand.<\/p>\n<p>The console went on sale on November 29 in the United States, Western Europe and Latin America, around the same time that rival Microsoft Corp&#8217;s Xbox One was released. That console topped 3 million units in sales as of the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said in April it had shipped 5 million Xbox One units to retailers worldwide since the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is yet to release its console in a number of markets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony execs return bonuses\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/57341\/sony-execs-return-bonuses\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony execs return bonuses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49891\/sony-playstation-4-sees-strong-demand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49651\/sony-entertainment-seeks-to-cut-100-million-in-costs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49601\/sony-sells-1-million-ps4s-on-day-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said on Tuesday that sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console, launched in November, has surpassed 10 million units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,169,5104,385,5904],"class_list":["post-65648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-playstation-4","tag-sony","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65648","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=65648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65654,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65648\/revisions\/65654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}