PS4 and Xbox One double sales of predecessors during first six months in US

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The new generation of consoles if off to a running start with the PS4 and Xbox One doubling sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 in their first six months on store shelves in the US, according to analyst group NPD.
Microsoft boasted on its Xbox Wire that the Xbox One has outpaced the Xbox 360's first six months sales by 76 per cent. It also noted that it has an average of three retail games sold per console. On the whole, that's pretty good.
What's less good, however, is its middling April Xbox One sales of 115K, which is worse than the Xbox 360 ever did in April (prior to this year - where it only shifted 71K copies when competing against its successor). Previously, the Xbox 360's record low for April was 130K in April 2013. These rapidly drying up sales certainly seem like a big instigator in getting Microsoft to sell its latest console at a lower price without Kinect.
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