Microsoft and Sony would not give sales totals for the devices, which arrived on the market during a pandemic-fueled surge in gaming immortal romance.But David Gibson, the chief investment officer at Astris Advisory, a financial advisory firm in Tokyo, estimated that Sony had sold at least six million PS5s through the end of 2020 and that Microsoft had sold three million of the Xbox Series X and the smaller Series S
Although it hasn't resulted in significant new videogame consumers, with less than 2 percent of Adult Canadians (age 18 to 64) choosing to pick up a controller during the pandemic, it has greatly boosted the number of videogame consumers in Canada.