Xbox One and PS4 sold 1,000 systems per minute on Amazon at peak

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Retailer also reveals that Call of Duty: Ghosts, Just Dance 2014, and GTAV were its best-selling games this holiday.

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were so popular this holiday shopping season on Amazon that at peak, both systems sold at a rate of 1,000 consoles per minute.

Amazon revealed the figures as part of an announcement of its best-ever holiday shopping season. On Cyber Monday alone, shoppers ordered more than 36.8 million items worldwide at a pace of 426 items per second.

The Xbox One and PS4 are neck-and-neck for worldwide sales so far, moving over 2 million consoles each. Sony expects to sell a total of 3 million units by December 31-- now just two days away.

Amazon also revealed its top-selling video games for the holiday period. They were, in order, Call of Duty: Ghosts (Xbox 360), Just Dance 2014 (Wii), and Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox 360).

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Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-and-ps4-sold-1-000-systems-per-minute-on-amazon-at-peak/1100-6416856/

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ShutPosted:

Just Dance sold more than GTA5?? What.....

neboPosted:

Dominating That`s a lot of consoles. Seems like it would be hard to keep up with demand.


pretty sure it is extremely hard to do that lol

ATLatimerPosted:

That`s a lot of consoles. Seems like it would be hard to keep up with demand.

YurPosted:

Tbh, im not really surprised.

DreamsPosted:

nice that alot of consoles especially at 426 a second

iIIuminatiPosted:

This seems really low, I thought it would have been much higher for PS4, I mean! its seems right doesnt it?

QluPosted:

Honestly I'm not surprised.

lordgeorgePosted:

This is a pretty high number, surely the PlayStation would have been higher than this?

MachampPosted:

Thats amazing the amount of money they must make is unreal.

SIKSPosted:

That's crazy! i didn't know that many people buy new consoles at that much.