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As we've written so many times already, Sony's dominance this generation can't be attributed solely to favourable policies or press conference clangers – it's the legwork that it's invested into Europe over the years that's doing the business. New figures coming out of Germany show that the PlayStation 4 currently commands almost 70 per cent of the market share in the key European nation, with its sales eclipsing the competition.

Borse Online reports that the Japanese giant's sold an outrageous 3.2 million units in the country since launch, with the Wii U and Xbox One fighting for second place with just 750,000 and 710,000 units respectively. This year alone, the PS4 has outsold Microsoft's console 4:1 – and that's despite Germans pointing out how heavily the Redmond firm's discounted its hardware in the country. It's a similar story across much of continental Europe, too.

Of course, the real worry for Sony's competitors will be whether it can nail next month's PS4 Neo reveal, because if it does, its numbers are only going to grow at an astronomical rate. The company's forecast that it will sell 20 million consoles during its current fiscal year, so it clearly has high hopes for the new hardware. And with both the NX and the Scorpio still at least six months to a year away, it may have the market all to itself.

[source boerse-online.de]