{"id":114112,"date":"2020-06-12T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364705"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:20:00","slug":"data-suggests-almost-half-of-xbox-one-users-also-own-a-playstation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/data-suggests-almost-half-of-xbox-one-users-also-own-a-playstation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Data suggests almost half of Xbox One users also own a PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the next console generation revs up, Microsoft and Sony have both made bets on the fact that consumers are only interested in purchasing one of the company&#8217;s consoles for their household.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While this may especially prove true at launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampereanalysis.com\/request_report_download\/1\">new data from Ampere Analysis<\/a> suggests this isn&#8217;t the case in the long term. In a report just published, the Ampere states that 32.2 percent of PlayStation 4 owners also won an Xbox One, while 18.5 percent of PS4 owners own an Xbox One X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cross-ownership flows even stronger in the reverse direction. 47.5 percent of Xbox One households also own a PS4, and 27.4 percent of Xbox One Households have a PlayStation 4 Pro. That means almost half of Xbox One households are effectively two-console households.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ampere&#8217;s data doesn&#8217;t make predictions about how this might the next console generation&#8217;s sales, and it obviously isn&#8217;t able to measure the incoming economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for this generation of game console ownership to close out with so much overlap does increase a growing agnosticism toward a particular platform of choice, which may be a boon to game developers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the next console generation revs up, Microsoft and Sony have both made bets on the fact that consumers are only interested in purchasing one of the company&#8217;s consoles for their household.&nbsp; While this may especially prove true at launch, new data from Ampere Analysis suggests this isn&#8217;t the case in the long term. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}