With the PlayStation 4 winning in next-gen console sales, Microsoft is hoping the "Titanfall" video game can jumpstart sales of the Xbox One.

By no stretch is the Xbox One a flop, but the PS4 has sold six million units worldwide since its Nov. release, nearly twice what Microsoft's console has managed. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is banking not only on the sales of the Xbox One exclusive title, but that it will encourage gamers to buy the console.

"'Titanfall' is an incredibly important game and it's coming at an important time," Yusuf Mehdi, head of marketing and strategy for Microsoft's Xbox group, told the WSJ.

Microsoft is selling "Titanfall" hard and spreading the news all around to gain interest in the title and also the console. With Sony's reputation for making a superior "living room console," Microsoft is looking to do the same while also gaining an advantage in the games department. Yusuf also told Bloomberg News the new title will be a "game changer."

"It's hard to overstate the importance of Titanfall to the Xbox One release this year," said Mehdi. "For us, it's a game changer. It's a system seller."

The PS3 was Sony's first living room console, as it was also a Blu-Ray disc player, an online market for TV shows and movies and an Internet browser. Microsoft has followed suit, but the PS4's advancements have seemingly won users over again.

Titanfall is so important to Microsoft because it has the potential to be the next great first-person shooter, the genre of the wildly popular "Halo" and "Call of Duty" series. Titanfall releases in North America on March 11, in Europe and Australia on March 13 and in the U.K. and New Zealand on March 14.

The game is based on team-play warfare on a planet ravaged by war. On one side is the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation and on the other is the militia. User play as "pilots" who either run around on foot or operate giant humanoid machines called titans.

Microsoft is expecting Titanfall to spur about 500,000 Xbox One sales in March and four million units of the title itself in the same timeframe, Bloomberg News reported.