PS4 will outsell the Xbox One by 40% over the next 4 years, analyst bets

The odds-makers have Sony pulling out a win in the latest console war.

The PlayStation 4 will outsell the Xbox One by 40 percent by 2019, according to industry-intelligence firm Strategy Analytics. The data company explains that Sony is “on a path to reproduce the success of the PlayStation 2.” Sony has already sold 18.5 million PS4s through the system’s first 14 months. By 2019, Strategy Analytics predicts Sony will have sold 80 million PS4s — though another researcher says that this isn’t the most important piece of data here. That is well ahead of its prediction of 57 million Xbox Ones by that same year. Console gaming is an industry that is worth more than $30 billion worldwide, and Sony is on track to capture the biggest piece of that.