PS5 Sales Continue To Outpace Xbox Series, With Over Twice As Many Units Sold

Sales of the PS5 are continuing to outpace combined sales of the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S consoles.

[gold_drake]

thats gotta be quite embarrassing

[Obscure_Observer]

"thats gotta be quite embarrassing"

Why? MS is making their games available everywhere. The results in console sales are nothing but expected.

Xbox consoles are nothing but another medium reserved to hardcore console players.

I mean, why would casual players be in a rush to buy an Xbox if they can play Xbox games anywhere?

PS5 and the Switch 2 are nothing but new partners to MS cash out.

If Xbox isn´t selling great is because console sales to MS is not all that important anymore.

Microsoft is aiming for maximum profits and sustainability over console war.

They´ll still release new consoles, but just as Nintendo, they´ll not longer be competing with Playstation. Everybody wins.

[ThePacemaker]

Meanwhile, Can't wait to play the best console version of Avowed on PS5 Pro.

[dveio]

"MS is making their games available everywhere."

Can WE all please once & for all stop this narrative and agree on unquestionable facts please?

That is:

First things they actually did was putting Redfall, Hellblade 2, Starfield and Indiana Jones exclusively to Xbox. They didn't bring anything "to finally be played everywhere".

All of them were designed multiplatform titles originally, it was even reported that Spencer ordered them to stop working on the PS5 versions. And Hellblade 1 was a multiplatform DNA IP.

Then:

Call of Duty, Fallout & other original 3rd party DNA don't need to be "made multiplatform" - they've always been multiplatform in the first place, nothing changed for anyone by Microsoft "letting them multiplatform" bound to a 10-year contractual agreement.

It's so f'n silly reading this narrative from you Xbox experts out there over and over again.

Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Hi-Fi & now Forza are the first real games Microsoft truly decided to make multiplat.

All other IPs they bought they either EXcluded from other consoles to push X|S. Or simply just let them stay multiplatform, which was inevitable looking at CoD and the revenue it draws on Playstation.

[IRetrouk]

You've changed your tune something shocking aint ya🤣

[KwietStorm_BLM]

So you said the embarrassing part out loud. The part you said wouldn't happen. But now "everybody wins." lol

[Knushwood Butt]

'If Xbox isn´t selling great is because console sales to MS is not all that important anymore.'.

Then:

'They´ll still release new consoles'.

Uh huh?

[Obscure_Observer]

"Meanwhile, Can't wait to play the best console version of Avowed on PS5 Pro."

Maybe next year.

Still... It´s really awesome how MS multiplatform approach turned some people who used to hate Xbox games into hyped fans.

I´ll be enjoying Obsidian´s masterpiece in a couple of days!!!

I can´t wait!!! *O_O*

@dveio

"MS is making their games available everywhere."

It´s *THEIR* games!

Those games won´t pay for its development and marketing costs by itself!

MS decided and will make ALL of their games and franchises available everywhere! Including Nintendo consoles, which will benefit the most, since both ABK and Bethesda, for example, haven't released their games for Nintendo consoles in many years!

Most games you mentioned were limited to PC, Xbox and Playstation only. Now, everyone will get to play those games everywhere!

If anything MS will make those franchises more popular among gamers worldwide than ever!

[CrashMania]

'If Xbox isn´t selling great is because console sales to MS is not all that important anymore.'

Crazy talk and cope, sales have collapsed due to years of MS dropping the ball. Not important? Where do you think most gamepass subs come from lol.

'Microsoft is aiming for maximum profits and sustainability over console war.'

I actually agree, shame MS choose to hide xbox profit numbers all the time.

[Obscure_Observer]

@CrashMania

"I actually agree, shame MS choose to hide xbox profit numbers all the time."

Profits were bigger than Playstation *before* ABK´s acquisition according to FTC leaked documents. Look it up!

Now with ABK MS is the biggest and most profitable gaming company in the world!

Tencent comes second.

It´s not rocket science, really.

I mean, were you an investor, which company would you invest your money on? The company that release its games for every major platforms and more reaching billions of gamers, or the company which try to keep the games for a limited playerbase?

For those who wants *profits* the answer is quite obvious.

@IRetrouk

"Obscure I said all this shit to you more than once and you laughed at it, now you are using it for your cope, you gotta stop twisting and turning everytime ms make a pivot, it makes you look disingenuous, they are an ea, ubisoft etc now, the war is over bro, pack it up."

No sure what you´re talking about, bro.

The war is over indeed. You can continue and call MS an Ubisoft, EA... etc... I don´t care because the undeniable fact still remains.

Which is; I still own my SX console and I´ll continue and enjoy my Xbox games day one via ultimate Game Pass and beyond whenever MS decides and continue to release new consoles.

The fact that you´ll get to enjoy those games on PS5 or the Switch 2 won´t hurt me or make me lose sleep over it. It´s your money.

Happy gaming.

[IRetrouk]

Obscure I said all this shit to you more than once and you laughed at it, now you are using it for your cope, you gotta stop twisting and turning everytime ms make a pivot, it makes you look disingenuous, they are an ea, ubisoft etc now, the war is over bro, pack it up.

You are wrong about the profits, the chart was comparing 3 different things, and wasnt from leaked ftc documents, infact it made that little sense he deleted it lol, what was leaked in the ftc however was phill admitting playstation made more profit, would you like the link? also they are not the biggest gaming company, their revenue still isn't close to playstation or tencent, also haven't made a profit with abk, infact it's been losses for the last couple quarters, do you even read the quarter results?

[S2Killinit]

Oh so that is the new spin? The sales have been like this for years(generations really).

Xbox is simply not as big a brand as PlayStation, and losing more relevance with every generation. MS isn’t releasing multiplatform because this was their plan, they are doing it because people don’t want xbox anymore to an extent that makes their ecosystem unsustainable.

Sales are in fact important to MS, so much so that they stopped reporting their numbers to the public.

[IRetrouk]

Ofcourse you don't obscure lol, I've been playing on xbox for years, those games were always available to me, the only bonus I get out of all this is I get to play them on my preferred platform with my preferred friends list, I've said this would be ms best move plenty and you have dissagreed plenty too, I'm glad to see you finally see it, happy gaming to you too, genuinely.

[Obscure_Observer]

@IRetrouk

"You are wrong about the profits, the chart was comparing 3 different things, and wasnt from leaked ftc documents, infact it made that little sense he deleted it lol what was leaked in the ftc however was phill admitting playstation made more profit, would you like the link? "

Of course! Bring your link!

"also they are not the biggest gaming company, their revenue still isn't close to playstation or tencent, also haven't made a profit with abk, infact it's been losses for the last couple quarters, do you even read the quarter results?"

Do YOU???

Here´s some actual numbers for ya:

Sony:

The numbers
FULL-YEAR (12 months ended March 31, 2024)

Net sales: ¥11.3 trillion ($72.2 billion, up 12% year-on-year)
Operating income: ¥1.04 trillion ($6.6 billion, up 5%)
Game & Network Services net sales: ¥4.3 trillion ($27.5 billion, up 17%)
Game & Network Services operating income: ¥290.2 billion ($1.9 billion, up 16%)

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

Microsoft:

The numbers
For the THREE MONTHS ended September 30, 2024:

Revenue: $65.6 billion (up 16% year-on-year)
Net income: $24.7 billion (up 11% year-on-year)
More Personal Computing (incl. Xbox) revenue: $13.2 billion (up 17% year-on-year)

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

Do you REALLY want to talk about numbers now, dude?

[Traecy]

The back & forth goalpost moving including the multiple spins of the BS that comes out of your mouth each & every day that you should be dizzy.

[anast]

It's embarrassing because they spent decades trying to compete just to end up another 3rd party publisher.

[IRetrouk]

You do some twisting lol here's the latest results for both consoles.

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

[Scissorman]

Console sales 100% matter to Microsoft. 85% of Game Pass subscribers are on console. If those sales dwindle, then the service cannot grow to the margins MS expects it to.

At the start of the start of the current generation, MS was doing backflips when it was revealed that the PS5 wasn't as powerful as the Series X and cost the same amount. MS was certain that with the power advantage, that it would finally be able to best PlayStation. But that wasn't the case. The market turned its back on Xbox, and what we are seeing now is MS in survival mode.

I honestly don't even know why MS would continue to pursue the console space. Perhaps out of fear of alienating it's most vocal and die-hard fans? The mass market however doesn't want an Xbox console. Outside of the US, Xbox isn't even really a part of the conversation.

[trez1082]

“Microsoft is aiming for maximum profits and sustainability over console war”

Said this as if they had to choose between console war or sustainability when the truth is they were losing the “ war “ and changed directions. Gone is the Xbox console players that used to fight for their consoles and welcome to Microsoft financial experts. Big up to my Atari, Sega fans that just took the L and moved on without turning into said companies spin merchants.

[IRetrouk]

Just to be clear, there are 3 months start difference when comparing both full year results, fy 2024 for ms starts in July 2023 and ends in June 2024, sonys fy 2023 starts in April 2023 and ends in March 2024, both cover comparable times, one had 21.5 bill and the other had 28.8, I'll let you guess which is which.
Sonys q3 results for 2024 get published next month, they cover the same period as the xbox results i linked you, like i said, xbox isn't the biggest gaming company, even after spending 80 bill🤷‍♂️

[TheCaptainKuchiki]

The same corny ass argument that we keep hearing from Xtards since gamepass launched. Yet gampass isn't growing AT ALL and console sales are plummeting.🤣
Had they not purchased Berthesda and Activision, their revenue and profits would've looked tragic.

[Charal]

« Why? »

You are a living joke, please never change.

[dveio]

@Obscure

You should better tell people that the More Personal Computing segment includes:

• Xbox gaming

But also:

• Windows and Devices, including Windows, comprising Windows OEM licensing (Windows Pro and non-Pro licenses sold through the OEM channel), Windows Internet of Things, and patent licensing; and devices.

• Search and news advertising, comprising Bing (including Copilot), Microsoft News, Microsoft Edge, and third-party affiliates.

https://www.microsoft.com/e...

it is simply not accurate on your behalf to compare the very Playstation division with the More Personal Computing division.

Which once again only underlines even more, unfortunately to the detriment of discussions within the Xbox's own community, what a deliberately obfuscated range of numbers Xbox has become.

[1Victor]

@obscured: “If Xbox isn´t selling great is because console sales to MS is not all that important anymore.

Microsoft is aiming for maximum profits and sustainability over console war.”
.
Sure thing buddy whatever makes you sleep better at night 🤣 I guess in your mind Microsoft created Xbox to be a business partner to Sony and Nintendo 🤦🏿 I guess they spent over $100 billion of dolly buying the biggest publisher and the popular games developers just to be Nintendo and Sony 3RD PARTY PARTNERS 🤣.

[andy85]

This was everyone's argument to you ages ago about xbox as a console is redundant as there'd no reason to own one and for some reason you had the opposite view then 🙃

[ABizzel1]

“PS5 and the Switch 2 are nothing but new partners to MS cash out.”

One thing people sometimes forget is that this work both ways. Console manufactures allegedly take 30% of software sales profits off the top, so Every game MS publishes on these platforms is also directly paying Sony and Nintendo, without them lifting a finger.

But the main concern from Xbox only fans that I’ve seen is that the need for dedicated hardware diminishes when you actively have means to your content elsewhere, and that’s the concern for Xbox fans. I don’t think see MS discontinuing the Xbox Series consoles and just saying we’re done it’s GamePass only and you can now download the app on PlayStation 5 and Switch 2. But, what does that conversation look like after PS6 / SW3 if hardware sales slump even lower.

At some point the investment in R&D for the hardware no longer becomes viable and is better spent elsewhere.

Again I don’t see that happening this generation or next generation, but after that who knows.

Then looking at market trends, MS has to have realized that the majority of it’s audience is okay with the Series S, and that could turn into giving up on the high-end console performance, and instead focusing on a budget friendly option that does just enough, and relies on AI and other tech from AMD / NVIDIA to make the traditional generational leap. We could truly be seeing Xbox’s next console be slightly better than a Series X in raw GPU performance, or even below a PS5 Pro, but instead uses AI to push above, and would gamers be okay with that?

Personally, I see nothing wrong with it, because that’s what’s most likely to work for them a $349 - $399 Series X+. But what about the hardcore Xbox fans IDK.

[dveio]

@Obscure

I missed that.

"It´s *THEIR* games!

Those games won´t pay for its development and marketing costs by itself!"

Noone, absolutely noone disagrees that today Microsoft, after they had bought all the 25+ IPs coming from Ninja Theory, Zenimax and ABK, that Microsoft today is legally the owner of all those IPs.

Noone disagrees on that.

And yet while all their development must be funded out of Microsoft's pocket now, because they simply own them legally, this doesn't withdraw the historical facts that NONE of those IPs were originally created by Microsoft's funding.

So, please, here I show you that I or everyone else can agree with you, noone is denying any ownership of Microsoft.

If in turn you could finally agree on the historical fact that "Doom to Microsoft" is unlike what "Ghost of Tsushima" is to Sony.

Unless, metaphorically speaking, you really want to re-shape even Wikipedia's entire collection of how things happened first.

[Chevalier]

No need for excuses. Xbox and their games just aren't selling. They haven't had a single breakout hit game in decades. They've never even built a franchise from the ground up to great success either. You couldn't even name a single 10 million seller They've created in the last decade. It's just sad

[rippermcrip]

It's funny when you always bring up the company value when you are desperate to try to win an argument.

Yes, we all know the company is bigger.

This isn't an investment site, it's a gaming site.

[Obscure_Observer]

@dveio

"And yet while all their development must be funded out of Microsoft's pocket now, because they simply own them legally, this doesn't withdraw the historical facts that NONE of those IPs were originally created by Microsoft's funding."

Every NEW game is a NEW gamble!

The moment Xbox acquired all those publishers and studios all we heard from you guys was how MS would destroy them all!

Now that MS is delivering high quality games from those studios the narrative is reduced to "Oh but it´s not originally an Xbox IP"

If *any* NEW game turn out to be a masterpiece or a turd it´s gonna be under Matt Booty´s watch!

Sony bought 10+ studios in the last five years or so. How many NEW successful IPs they´d delivered again? How many NEW games from those studios?

Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Pentiment, Forza Horizon, Fable, Avowed, South of Midnight, State of Decay 3, Everwild, Towerborne, Contraband, Project Mara, Clockwork Revolution, Project Dragon, Double Fine´s new IP and we heard (via LinkedIn) that Obsidian is working on a new unannounced AAA RPG!

I mean, how many NEW IPS do you need from MS?

Call me an Xbox fanboy deny and deny all you want, but the real and actual fact is that MS is doing a much better job with their recent acquired studios in comparison with what Sony is doing with their own recent acquired ones. Period!

[dveio]

@Obscure

I don't disagree with alot of things you write. I really don't.

Every

• first party new IP, emphasis on "new"

you are listing here does absolutely fall into the category what people were missing about the Xbox brand for years now, actually for more than a decade. And you're right - they are finally coming! Still not there for most of them, but they are coming.

But many

• already existing, just as of now first party IP (DOOM, CoD, Fallout, etc., it's 22 in total in my count)

have always been multiplatform anyway & Xbox didn''t get people to be excited by "Look, WE now own them!". It's as simple as that.

And other

• already existing, originally planned as multiplatform titles IP (Hellblade, Starfield, Redfall, Indiana)

were intentionally excluded from Playstation after they were taken over. And why? To push X|S, which is fine. But it's proof they indeed wanted to see if they could turn things around on the exclusive territory. Otherwise they wouldn't have done it.

And, on the other topic I mentioned, please don't compare Microsoft's MPC business segment ( https://www.microsoft.com/e... with Sony's Playstation segment.

It's totally inaccurate to do so.

If you think it IS accurate, then please explain to me or everyone else why you think it's accurate to not look at Xbox gaming numbers (if possible), but instead the whole MPC business segment which does include way more revenue and profits from other products than just Xbox.

[IRetrouk]

Oct-dec 2024 quarter

Xbox Q2
Xbox hardware -29%
Content/services +2%
Total gaming revenue -7%

PlayStation Q3
PS hardware +16%
Network Services +28%
Total gaming revenue +16.5%

Total 2024 revenues

• PlayStation - $30.8 billion
• Xbox - $22.7 billion
• Nintendo - $8 billion

Told ya obscure......

[GamingSinceForever]

Playstation was doubling in sales long before MS went multiplat with their games. Going by your reasoning it should be triple or more.

[GamerRN]

It's only embarrassing too the fanboys. If you aren't a fanboy for either system, it doesn't matter at all.

[LikAChicken]

@gamerRN I'm saying. It feels like people continue to want to argue about which plastic container is better. And I'm also saying when the shoe was on the other foot and 360 was doing well, it was the same back then. I slowly found my way back to this site and the fact that the comment section is still doing the same type of arguments in a different era is sad.

I really hope there are no adult comments talking about console war this and that. It's literally the best way to waste time and look like a child.

[Babadook7]

"Why? MS is making their games available everywhere. The results in console sales are nothing but expected."

Sweet damage control.

[dveio]

As of November 2024:

"This puts combined sales of the Xbox Series consoles at 25 to 27 million units."

And if we consider X|S arguably didn't even sell 1m in December, then, even if it did sell 1m in December, it would put the X|S at max. 28m sold globally as of December, 31st 2024.

[CrashMania]

So vgchartz over tracking it by around 4-5 million units potentially then.

[dveio]

Probably.

There were some guys pointing this out actually in the last months. But don't know why they choosed to not touch it.

[IRetrouk]

They have always overtracked the xbox lol, site was started by an xbox fan.

[Aloymetal]

They always have. They got exposed by non other than AMD back in 2018 when they had their xbox sale numbers around 4-5 mil more than the chips actually made by AMD lol. But they don't care, they continue to shill.

[MetroidFREAK21]

Are we surprised?

[TheColbertinator]

Everything on track for Microsoft's assured victory

[S2Killinit]

Not sure if sarcasm …

[CrashMania]

Definitely is, this guys whole MO is xbox fanboy satrical comments lol.

[Chocoburger]

Unfortunately he's not being sarcastic. He truly is that stupid.

[Elda]

That one hates anything PlayStation but loves to comment in any article PlayStation related. I'm guessing it's a negative obsession.

[Reaper22_]

Outsold 2 to 1 in console sales but not in money made. Consoles don't bring in as much money as software and services which is why Microsoft strategy has changed. Imo it's a smart and good one.

[crazyCoconuts]

good strategy? They have painted both consoles and gamepass together into a corner and don't know the first thing about how to make studios successful. Make no mistake their leadership are sh$*#ing bricks right now.

[Obscure_Observer]

"Make no mistake their leadership are sh$*#ing bricks right now."

Are they? Phil Spencer made all his way to the top and after almost eleven years still calling the shots while Sony´s struggling with it´s leadership since the PS4 era.

People have being asking for Phi´s head for years and the last thing that man fears now is to be fired from his job!

[rudero]

@obscure

“Spencer made all his way to the top”…
Doing what?
Not 1 single new AAA game.
Indie games priced as AAA games that released broken, unfinished, or subpar.
Franchise titles that are subpar and way below there standards.
Cod is tanking to its worst state in its history.
And Microsoft has lost more market share than the horrible Xbox one. You know, the incident that got Phil “promoted”.

If you think Sony’s leadership is struggling, yet praise the above, then you literally make yourself mute on any point.

The BILLIONS spent from Microsoft had its effect… but ONLY on Sonys wallet by giving the “appearance” of being a competitor through marketing while actually providing nothing. Of which was the main goal of Microsoft.
“Gaming” has never been on Microsoft’s radar… Sony was as a company that was leading in computing technology in early 2000’s when Microsoft was losing footing in all directions.

[Reaper22_]

You don't have a clue what you're talking about. They have many successful studios. As far as their leadership goes, right now i think they're doing a much better job than sony's leadership. Outside of console sales they're isn't much to celebrate about. I'm sure they'll bounce back soon but things over there aren't looking very good right now.

[Obscure_Observer]

@rudero

"Doing what?"

Ask Microsoft! I´m pretty sure they got their reasons to fill Phil´s pockets with some staggering $10 million figure per year, which almost doubles what both Nintendo and Sony pays to their CEOs combined!

"If you think Sony’s leadership is struggling, yet praise the above, then you literally make yourself mute on any point."

After nine LS games getting cancelled, multiple studios shut down and people fired by the thousands, ANY gaming company would be struggling with its leadership.

My opinion means sh!t to Microsoft! So no, I´m not praising MS´s leadership which are nothing but a bunch of liars! I´m speaking about facts!

And the fact of the matter is that Phil in the eyes of MS, is KEY for their gaming business whatever it is.

[raWfodog]

@Obscure

"...while Sony´s struggling with it´s leadership since the PS4 era."

Yet, we're commenting on an article about how the PS5 has more than doubled Xbox sales. If that's the results Sony is getting with their 'struggling leadership', then I guess you really wouldn't want to see them getting it together.

Now if we were talking MAU, then that'd be all Xbox. But it appears that no one really writes articles about that.

[crazyCoconuts]

If we're going to pull Sony in and compare, all I'll say is this - Playstation was SO far ahead due to consistently being better for so long, that this recent colossal screw up isn't enough to change things. PS trips and looks back to see Xbox has already walked off the field and left their gear.

Regarding Xbox having many successful studios - remember before they went on the shopping spree they had run nearly all their studios into the ground. Of course when you buy Machine Games and Activision, who have been pumping out quality consistently, in the short run they will continue to pump out quality. But MS will gradually bring them into the MS way of doing things, and MS never figured out how to create a culture of innovation and greatness. Without some massive change, MS will slowly drag them down with them, the same way they dragged down Xbox.

[Elda]

This is not surprising. This has been going on for generations now.

[Lightning77]

Hardly news anymore. This is a very common trend amongst the two consoles.

[Abear21]

Just a huge blunder this generation to launch the worlds most powerful console and then make every game have to launch on Series S.

What were they thinking?

That, and having their biggest games launch even though they weren’t ready to…zero oversight or quality control from M$—peeps should lose their job but this isn’t a gaming company to begin with, so there’s that.

[Green-Smurf]

PSM was unofficially renamed N4G

[Abear21]

Really seems this way everywhere right now. Microsoft could really use some good news. Hopefully Fable will turn the tides, but with their track record lately don’t hold your breath.

[raWfodog]

Xbox needs to release another console next gen. Sony needs competition to keep them on their toes. Competition is good for innovation and the industry overall.

[BehindTheRows]

Xbox clearly isn’t keeping Sony anywhere. They sold less than 5 million machines last year. The 4th year of the Series’ life.

It’s dead, Jim.

[Destiny1080]

According to Take-Two’s Q3 2025 earnings report, there are over 94 million current gen consoles sold

PS5 71 Million
Xbox 23 Million

sony sells 23 Million a year, maybe even more with gta6 on the way

[Ninver]

Game Over...Flawless victory.

[rakentaja]

People don't want Game Pass, and as Phil stated, people definitely aren't buying the specific system just for the good exclusive games. What should Microsoft do to increase console sales?

[hennessey86]

In other news, water is wet

[anast]

Sony beat them so bad they went 3rd party. lol

[Abear21]

Price cut incoming, oh wait, this is one of the greediest corps on Earth, never mind

[DivineHand125]

This trend is going to continue until the end of this generation unless Sony does something stupid to cause them to fall out of favor with the gaming population much like Microsoft did when at the launch of the Xbox one. This is unlikely though.

[ghostrider32]

I feel like Xbox would have been in better shape, if Microsoft took out the trash after that 2013 fiasco. New management, new everything.

[Commentby]

Yay more boring PS5 games incoming

[RhinoGamer88]

Phil and his lackey leadership laugh at any negative articles...too busy in the Redmond strip clubs. #failup

[Tedakin]

This is no longer news.