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From Microsoft officially announced that by the end of the 2013 they total delivered well over three million copies of Xbox One to 13 markets in which it was possible to buy a console.

Xbox One since the appearance on the market on 22nd November bought more than two million players, Microsoft confirmed. Statistics says that since the release of the console every day was sold 111,111 copies.

Development teams who want their games to be included in the Xbox Live offer of Arcade games on Xbox 360 had to make sure to offer players a demo version so that everyone could try out a game before buying. Microsoft was the one that insisted on this practice but not so long after the release of Xbox One they confirmed that this practice will become a past tense.

In a move that would have made Steve Jobs proud Microsoft is apparently leaning on developers to only develop for their Xbox One platform or delay any release for other console platforms. The news comes as developer Witch Beam, is claiming that due to restrictions in the ID@Xbox program they are being forced to delay their new game Assault Android Cactus because they already have plans to launch games on other consoles.

More new users of the PlayStation 4 reported on Friday problems when connecting to PSN on their new consoles , identical to those with whom new owners of consoles met in the US two weeks ago.

A smaller portion of the supplied Xbox One consoles arrived on the market with broken optical drive, about which we wrote a few days ago, and Microsoft shortly afterwards promised that all the broken consoles will be replaced as soon as possible.

Producer of Assassin's Creed 4, Sylvain Trottier last week gave an interview to the journalists who quoted his words that optimization for the PC is not so important for Ubisoft, and that if the game is not working fast enough users should get a new GPU.

Limited and completely white edition of Ouya is currently being manufactured in factories, and should be relased to market just in time for the fastest buyers to get them for under the christmas tree.

The PlayStation 4 user manual posted on the official website confirmed that Sony's new console will support playback of 3D Blu-ray discs.

Although it should have appeared in the hands of end users last week, micro console GameStick will start selling on 15th November, together with PlayStation 4. This should be the final delay, so no further delays will appear after this one.