It’s a war that’s raged on amongst the gaming communities for decades; which console is top dog? via Declutter blog
Forget Trump or Clinton; we wanted to find out just where America stands on these two gaming goliaths. Is it Xbox One or PS4?
Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 – Going head to head
The dispute over consoles came to a head in November 2013, when the PS4 and Xbox One were unveiled to the world, just seven days apart.
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PS4 might be killing it with worldwide sales at 35.9million to Xbox One’s 20million, but what’s the situation at home? Using Google Search Data we looked at which states searched the most for which console: PS4 or Xbox One.
Surprisingly, it turns out we aren’t as torn on our gaming searches as our politics, with the US-made Xbox One topping the list in every state. That’s aside from one very important state in the gaming and tech world.
Home to Silicon Valley, California is the spiritual home of technology. It seems Californians are all about their PS4. Is there something developers and tech pioneers know that we don’t? Are Apple, Google and Tesla employees deliberately choosing a console that won’t see money going into Microsoft pockets?
Brand Loyalty
We also investigated which brand is the most popular overall.
Launched in December 1994, PlayStation had an almost seven year advantage to become the favorite gaming brand.
However, despite being launched in November 2001, our research suggests Xbox is still the most popular in the US, with PlayStation topping the searches in just 15 of the 50 states.
Interestingly it seems PlayStation terms are searched more in certain areas, such as the West Coast, topping the polls in California, Oregon and Nevada. Which is a similar story in the South East states such as Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.
It also topped the polls in metropolitan cities New York and Washington, whereas Xbox dominated the searches across the majority of the east and Central America.
So there it is America.
The Nerdy Bit
Research was carried out on 03/03/2016
Terms researched were:
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
PlayStation Portable
PS2
PS3
PS4
PSP
We used the Google Keyword Planning Tool to get an estimated number of searches for each of the above terms on a state by state basis.
Search trends data covers the last 12 months of searches, giving the average number of searches per term.
For the device map, the devices with the highest overall average number of searches was considered to be the most searched.
For the brand map, searches for the relevant products were aggregated on a state by state basis across the two brands.
| State | Device | Brand |
| Alabama | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Alaska | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Arizona | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Arkansas | Xbox One | Xbox |
| California | PS4 | Playstation |
| Colorado | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Connecticut | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Delaware | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Florida | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Georgia | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Hawaii | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Idaho | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Illinois | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Indiana | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Iowa | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Kansas | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Kentucky | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Louisiana | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Maine | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Maryland | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Massachusetts | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Michigan | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Minnesota | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Mississippi | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Missouri | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Montana | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Nebraska | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Nevada | Xbox One | Playstation |
| New Hampshire | Xbox One | Xbox |
| New Jersey | Xbox One | Xbox |
| New Mexico | Xbox One | Xbox |
| New York | Xbox One | Playstation |
| North Carolina | Xbox One | Xbox |
| North Dakota | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Ohio | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Oklahoma | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Oregon | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Pennsylvania | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Rhode Island | Xbox One | Xbox |
| South Carolina | Xbox One | Xbox |
| South Dakota | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Tennessee | Xbox One | Playstation |
| Texas | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Utah | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Vermont | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Virginia | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Washington | Xbox One | Xbox |
| West Virginia | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Wisconsin | Xbox One | Xbox |
| Wyoming | Xbox One | Xbox |
Source: decluttr
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Xbox one is the best console available. Unless you want to spend $400 for a ps4.5 so the morons can count a few more pixels…oh an another $500 for a gimmick VR with some of the dumbest looking games I have ever seen. Sony is robbing their fan base blind to stay out of bankruptcy…never will I but a Sony product again.
so… the uneducated poor support Xbox and the educated wealthy support Playstation, where the educated poor support PC and the uneducated wealthy support Apple. I see.
I would say on sales alone of course from what we know the PS4 had a sizeable lead but from this article and others I’ve read over the past year…more gamers are playing online with xbox games than PS4…there are better and more AAA exclusives on X1 than P4…and some of the cross platform titles including the continued backward compatibility option seem to be a determined factor..newer larger titles tend to sway towards P4 but only in terms of exclusive dlc content but also vice versa at times…that may all change as bigger exclusives for p4 will be released throughout 2016.
I imagine so lol Tho if Sony decides to follow suit with Microsoft by allowing online play though all consoles it really won’t matter which console you get aside from each consoles exclusives. Tho I kinda doubt they will for obvious reasons.
Or we can look up NPD data which shows the PS4 has a million unit lead over the Xbone in the US.
Xbox fanboys on Twitter like ohimlaughin are going to have to find another straw to cling to.
So true on all accounts for me as well. I have 1 friend with an XBone, and everyone else has ps4. The XBone friend now has a ps4 because he was lonely :p
Complete opposite for me. Ridiculous amount of PS4 owners where I live and very few XB1s. And everyone is a Sony fan boy which is funny b/c most of them were xbox fanboys in the previous generation.
Wait, so the majority of the people in America looks up xbox related stuff online but most of them have playstations… is that what this article is saying O.o
i guess america loves xbox brand more than the playstation brand.
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