Xbox One Still Trailing: While Sony is celebrating it's continuing good fortunes, Microsoft was offering a feeble excuse as to why it's no longer revealing it's consoles sales figures. Microsoft Studios Global Product Marketing, Aaron Greenberg, was asked recently on Twitter why the company no longer reveals the NPD numbers related to their products. His response came across as rather disingenuous.
Greenbergs assertion that the Northern Hemisphere summer is a slow selling period and therefore it's not worth looking at the numbers is practically the very definition of a lame duck excuse. It's also a tacit admission that the Xbox One one isn't doing as well as Microsoft would like. Greenberg went on to say, that it's the holiday season sales that really count.
It would have been incredibly refreshing if Greenberg had just come right out and said they're not revealing the NPD numbers because they're not as great as the Microsoft team would like. After all it's not as if that would be revelatory information. Microsoft's last mention of sales figures for the Xbox One was in April when it was revealed that five million units had been shipped to retailers. Since then, it's been all crickets.
What is your opinion? Why does Microsoft suddenly?
