Microsoft's earnings from Quarter 3 have revealed that in the last quarter, the company has sold a little more than one million Xbox One units to retailers, not consumers.

As of Jan. 1, the company had sold 3.9 million units of its newest console. Microsoft announced that it has sold 5 million units by April 17, Forbes reported.

In that same time, however, Sony doubled Microsoft's sales, as it sold 2.8 million units of its newest next-gen console, the PlayStation 4, to consumers and not retailers. As of Jan. 1, Sony had sold 4.2 million consoles and by April 6 they had sold 7 million.

Forbes reported that based on Microsoft's sell-through to consumer rate being roughly 77 percent, by Jan. 1, the company has sold currently 3.85 million Xbox Ones to consumers.

The Quarter 3 numbers also indicate that in terms of consumer sales, not retailer sales, Sony actually sold three times as many PS4s as Xbox Ones, making it possible that Sony could have sold more PS4 units in a single month than Microsoft did in quarter.

Up until the recent Quarter 3 results, Xbox One sales were higher than the previous Xbox 360 sales at its same point in time after its respective releases. Microsoft's 1.2 million units sold in Quarter 3 fell below the Xbox 360 sales during its third quarter, which reached to 1.7 million following its 2006 launch, according to Forbes. In overall sales, however, the Xbox One is still ahead of the 360.

Microsoft's release of the "Xbox One: Titanfall Bundle" helped the company's sale, but it wasn't enough to keep up with Sony, which beat its rival 3-to-1 in sales during the third quarter.

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