UPDATE:

New reports have emerged that give more insight on the Xbox One’s victory in August 2016:

https://twitter.com/AstronautClaire/status/776303077968207872

https://twitter.com/AstronautClaire/status/776303548099420160

https://twitter.com/AstronautClaire/status/776311171418841088

https://twitter.com/AstronautClaire/status/776311798727311360

Original story:

Hot on the heels of an NPD victory in July 2016, reports have emerged that Xbox One also won the August 2016 NPD. Further, it was incidentally the Xbox One’s best August to date and bested the PS4 once again. For the meantime, we don’t have exact data but here’s the tweet from Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg:

Thanks to everyone for the amazing support making @Xbox One #1 selling console in US for August from @npdgroup second month in a row! — Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️❎ (@aarongreenberg) September 8, 2016

CosmicQueso also reported on NeoGAF that it was Microsoft’s best hardware NPD since 2011:“Biggest August for X HW since 2011″

Microsoft provided the following statement from Xbox marketing boss Mike Nichols: