According to Microsoft, Xbox One console sales in the US at retail increased 22 percent year-over-year during Black Friday week, making it the second biggest Black Friday week in the history of the Xbox.
"A winning combination of the most critically acclaimed holiday lineup of exclusives in Xbox history, the New Xbox One Experience complete with Backward Compatibility, and an extensive line-up of console bundles, drove record Xbox One sales in the U.S. and Xbox Store sales worldwide, with record engagement from Xbox fans around the world over Black Friday week," said Microsoft.
Worldwide Xbox Store sales during the week set a record as spending jumped 57 percent across the Xbox One and Xbox One, while total paid unique users increased 55 percent. Xbox One saw its unique number of paid users jump 88 percent.
Xbox Live Gold subscriptions increased 40 percent, however it was possible to get a one month Gold subscription for just $1 which will have inflated the figures. Xbox users also spent 325 million hours gaming during Black Friday week, while hours spent on the Xbox One jumped 196 percent.
Finally, Microsoft also revealed some information on gaming on Windows 10. For the month of November gaming on Windows 10 exceeded Windows 8 for the first time. Xbox One owners have streamed more than five million hours of Xbox One games onto their Windows 10 PCs.
More than 30 percent of Steam users played on a Windows 10 device, which is six times more than Mac and Linux combined. Almost 20 percent of non-mobile devices are running Windows 10.
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