--- title: PS4 the Top Console in March, EA's Titanfall the Bestselling Game description: Microsoft's Xbox One cedes the top console sales spot to Sony's PS4, but takes first in software sales for March 2014 with EA and Respawn's Titanfall. canonical: https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/ author: Matt Peckham article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-17T23:18:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:02:00.499Z article:section: Business og:title: PS4 the Top Console in March, EA's Titanfall the Bestselling Game og:description: Microsoft's Xbox One cedes the top console sales spot to Sony's PS4, but takes first in software sales for March 2014 with EA and Respawn's Titanfall. og:url: https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab317346ad3b5b5a/69868b3a810bbbcd90c911c6/titanfall.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: titanfall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: PS4 the Top Console in March, EA's Titanfall the Bestselling Game twitter:description: Microsoft's Xbox One cedes the top console sales spot to Sony's PS4, but takes first in software sales for March 2014 with EA and Respawn's Titanfall. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab317346ad3b5b5a/69868b3a810bbbcd90c911c6/titanfall.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sony's PlayStation 4 Was the Top-Selling Console in March, but Titanfall Was the Top-Selling Game > Sponsored content. 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Screenshot from publisher Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment's massively-multiplayer first-person Xbox One shooter Titanfall (also for Xbox 360 and Windows).Electronic Arts by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Apr 17, 2014 11:18 PM UTC Xbox One owners, exhale: Microsoft had a very good March. While the company continues to cede the top monthly console sales spot to Sony’s PlayStation 4, its Xbox- and Windows-exclusive massively multiplayer first-person shooter, _Titanfall_, was tops in software sales. That’s good news, as is Microsoft’s disclosure of a new sales figure: 5 million, or the number of Xbox Ones sold worldwide since launch. Yes, it’s some 2 million shy of Sony’s [7 million-selling PlayStation 4](http://time.com/65927/sony-says-7-million-playstation-4s-have-been-sold-worldwide/), but remember that Sony had a one-week lead, the PS4 is $100 cheaper and the company’s currently selling the PS4 in a whopping 72 countries and regions, while Microsoft’s only selling the Xbox One in 13\. Microsoft plans to expand the Xbox One’s availability to 39 countries [this September](http://time.com/28963/microsofts-xbox-one-could-make-up-lost-sales-ground-big-time-in-september/), but lopsided hardly begins to describe direct sales comparisons. Retail (and burgeoning digital) sales tracker NPD Group says hardware sales were up 78 percent over March 2013 — no surprise, since hardware sales have been up year-on-year since the PS3 and Xbox One launched last November. That’s translating to across-the-board gains in hardware, software and accessories, which combined were up 3 percent year-on-year. NPD confirms that both the PS4 and Xbox One are setting records: add both systems together through their preliminary five months of availability and you’re talking twice the sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 for the same period. What’s more, if you run the same figure for retail software sales, combined PS4 and Xbox One software is up some 60 percent. This sort of momentum’s never forever, but to all the naysayers who said this next generation of game consoles was going to flop, at least for now, crow’s still very much on the menu. Sony hasn’t put up a blog post or dropped a press release yet, but fired this off through the PlayStation twitter account: > [](https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/456923509164625920) Microsoft hasn’t manned the Twitter-cannon yet, but did offer more granular figures in an email, noting that it sold 311,000 Xbox Ones in the U.S. in March (60 percent higher sales than the Xbox 360 for the same period — forget the PS4, who can argue with that?), that it sold 111,000 Xbox 360s for March (holding the top seventh-gen console spot) and that it’s seeing attachment sales of nearly 3 games per Xbox One console sold. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/"},"headline":"Sony's PlayStation 4 Was the Top-Selling Console in March, but Titanfall Was the Top-Selling Game","datePublished":"2014-04-17T23:18:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:00.499Z","description":"Microsoft's Xbox One cedes the top console sales spot to Sony's PS4, but takes first in software sales for March 2014 with EA and Respawn's Titanfall.","url":"https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","sales","Game consoles","Sony","PlayStation 4","xbox One","Microsoft"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab317346ad3b5b5a/69868b3a810bbbcd90c911c6/titanfall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab317346ad3b5b5a/69868b3a810bbbcd90c911c6/titanfall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"titanfall","caption":"Screenshot from publisher Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment's massively-multiplayer first-person Xbox One shooter Titanfall (also for Xbox 360 and Windows).","creditText":"Electronic Arts","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/67549/sonys-playstation-4-was-the-top-selling-console-in-march-but-microsofts-titanfall-was-the-top-selling-game/","name":"Sony's PlayStation 4 Was the Top-Selling Console in March, but Titanfall Was the Top-Selling Game"}}]}] ```