The Xbox One is "catching up quickly" to the PlayStation 4 in terms of worldwide sales, according to Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen. What's helping Microsoft close the gap is the recent $50 price drop and the value-focused Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty bundles currently available, he said today.

"Clearly, Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think a great pricing strategy. But Microsoft is catching up quickly," Jorgensen said today during a presentation at the 2014 UBS Global Technology Conference. "And pricing actions that are taking place, particularly within this Christmas season, driven by Microsoft around reductions plus a lot of bundled software, I think will continue to help pull the consumer into the new consoles."

"Microsoft is catching up quickly" -- Blake Jorgensen

Jorgensen predicted that, after the holiday shopping season ends, there will be "north of 25 million" combined Xbox One and PS4 systems in the market. It is unclear how many are in the market currently, but it's believed to be above 15 million (10 million PS4s and at least 5 million Xbox Ones).

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-catching-up-quickly-to-ps4-ea-exec-says/1100-6423675/

Clueless guy is clueless

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Still trying to justify all their exclusivity deals with Microsoft I see?

I really don't think he meant that in the way that the X1 is outselling the PS4 and thus catching up to it in total sales (quite simply because that isn't true), but more in the way that the X1s current sales are picking up and "catching up to the PS4s".

Worldwide?...I don´t think so.

tfw when businessman trying to justify betting on the wrong horse

Globally in the US

WOW, EA...., blatantly lying because Microsoft paid you to say so, because there's no doubt in my mind Microsoft is behind this.

Absolutely disgusting...

Beat me to it. PR spin to cover their bad decisions.

Well, if EA says so...