A study of how millions use Xbox Live

Seems to be the case.

I'm the owner of an Xbox One, but I'm seriously considering selling it and getting a PS4 instead.

There aren't many differences in exclusive games anymore, and Sony's games line up seems more interesting to me.

But the major pain I have with Xbox One is the user interface. Dang, that is a hell of a complicated UI. When I first got the Xbox, it took some getting used to navigate around efficiently.

PS4's ui is way more straightforward (again, IMO). It just doesn't try to arrange stuff in fancy ways. It just works (TM).

It's a small data point, but the in-game market in Fifa17 suggests that there's 3 times as much PS4 activity than Xbox One activity. Given that it's one of the biggest games on either platform, that would suggest that yes, they are losing out to Sony.

I personally switchef from Xbox do PS with this generation. I know others that did too.

It doesn't take that many people swapping platforms to make a huge difference in marketshare percent. I.e. if it was 40 % for each, 10% swapping makes it 30% vs 50%. And then at some point developers would skip cross platform for the smaller console and the gains will steamroll.

Unclear how hard Microsoft will push xbox. It's obviously not the core business but its a fairly big division.