Microsoft Says They’ve Sold 5 Million Xbox One Units to Retailers

<p>With NPD numbers for March being released yesterday&comma; Yusuf Mehdi&comma; Xbox corporate vice president of marketing&comma; strategy and business&comma; announced Microsoft has sold more than 5 million units of the Xbox One console to retailers worldwide&period; The NPD numbers revealed Xbox One sales for March were estimated around  311&comma;000 units&period; Surely this number was aided by the release of Titanfall&period; Exact numbers of how many copies of Titanfall sold were not disclosed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is worthy to note Sony has reported selling more than 7 million units to consumers worldwide&period; Where Microsoft is reporting it has sold over 5 million units to retailers&comma; not customers&period; Mehdi does report the Xbox One is &&num;8220&semi;outpacing Xbox 360 by more than 60 percent at the same point in time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony tweeted out yesterday &&num;8220&semi;NPD confirms PS4 &num;1 in console sales for March &&num;8211&semi; thank you&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;4&sol;17&sol;5626130&sol;xbox-one-sales-5-million" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Polygon<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;