Microsoft said today that it shipped more than 2 million video game consoles in its third fiscal quarter ended March 31 — and 1.2 million of these were Xbox Ones.
Those numbers jibe with last week’s announcement that Microsoft has shipped to retailers about 5 million of its Xbox One consoles since launching the system last November. But the company didn’t say how many of these systems got bought.
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That means that Microsoft has shipped to retailers more than $2.5 billion worth of hardware to retailers. Sony, meanwhile, has sold more than $2.8 billion worth of consoles to gamers.
The quarterly numbers for the first calendar quarter also show that consumers are still buying a lot of previous-generation Xbox 360 consoles.