Microsoft shipped — but didn’t sell — 6.6M Xboxes during its fiscal Q2

Microsoft just reported the earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal 2015, and while the Xbox One sold well, its price dragged down the company’s earnings.

The corporation revealed that it shipped 6.6 million Xbox consoles to retailers (this includes both Xbox One and Xbox 360 systems) during the three-month period ending Dec. 31. That was down from 7.4 million during the same period in the prior year. That is also more than 4.1 million that Sony said it sold during the same period, but it’s important to note that Sony is measuring how many people bought a PS4 and Microsoft is counting how many it sold to retailers. So the comparison isn’t all that effective, and you can get a better perspective on the console race by reading our recent report here.