{"id":18230,"date":"2022-10-12T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/playstation-userbase-significantly-larger-than-xbox-even-if-every-cod-player-ditched-sony-microsoft-says\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:37:35","slug":"playstation-userbase-significantly-larger-than-xbox-even-if-every-cod-player-ditched-sony-microsoft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/playstation-userbase-significantly-larger-than-xbox-even-if-every-cod-player-ditched-sony-microsoft-says\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation userbase &#8220;significantly larger&#8221; than Xbox even if every COD player ditched Sony, Microsoft says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nMicrosoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an interesting statistic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn response to continued questions over whether Microsoft owning Call of Duty would unfairly hobble PlayStation, Microsoft claimed that every COD player on PlayStation could move over to Xbox, and Sony&#8217;s playerbase would still remain &#8220;significantly larger&#8221; than its own.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMicrosoft does not go into detail on its mental arithmetic here, but does note elswhere in its comments that PlayStation currently has a console install base of 150 million, compared to Xbox&#8217;s install base of 63.7 million.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-userbase-significantly-larger-than-xbox-even-if-every-cod-player-ditched-sony-microsoft-says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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