50 million PS4s sold-through as of 6th December 2016, Black Friday week in the history of PlayStation

[Rafie]

Runa216 said:
You know what I never liked? Microsoft pushing the "we're number 1 in sales" mentality all the time. they just barely beat PS4 in America, sure, but PS4 beats Xbox One in virtually every other country in the world.

I actually WANT Xbox to do better, since they have a lot of things I like (The controller, in particular), but I'm just tired of their deceptive marketing. They have need of an asterisk and related caveat next to every claim.

"Xbox One! The best selling console for the last four months"
*(If you only count the one country where it's doing that and not any others)"

It's not really deceptive. They really were the "best selling" console in the last 4 months. Best selling means for that time being. Just like a new Harry Potter book would be the best selling book at that time. Not the best selling of all time. Xbox makes those PR statements at NPD where only North America is counted. It's unfair to bring the other countries in IF we're only discussing NPD. It's not deceptive at all.