Sony Beats Microsoft in Console Sales for Fifth Month
Sony Corp. (6758)’s PlayStation 4 beat Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Xbox One in sales of consoles in U.S. stores in May, extending its lead for a fifth month.
Overall consumer spending on video-game hardware and software jumped 52 percent to $586 million last month, compared with a year earlier, with the PS4 retaining its sales lead as the No. 1 platform, NPD Group Inc. said in an e-mailed statement today.
