Xbox One highest selling console second month in a row, price lowered to $349

Today, Microsoft have announced that the Xbox One was the best selling console for the month of December, making for a two month streak. Along with this announcement came the news that they will be lowering the Xbox One’s price permanently to $349 after the strong success it had through the holiday promotion. They have also posted some interesting stats about the Xbox brand in 2014:

• Xbox 360 became the best-selling seventh generation console of all time in the U.S.

• In 2014, users logged nearly 8 billion hours globally in apps across Xbox 360 and Xbox One, a
50 percent increase from time spent in 2013.

• Xbox One became the best-selling console in the U.S. in November and December and weekly average sales during these months outpaced Xbox 360 by 50 percent at the same point in its lifecycle.*

• Xbox One also sold more games throughout November and December in the U.S. than any other current-generation platform.*

• From November 24 to January 3, fans spent more time playing on Xbox than they ever have before, at any point in the history of Xbox.

• In the Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta alone, 18 million games have been played to date.

Phil Spencer is also featured in a video that discusses this in more detail which you can view below.