We all form of know that Sony’s PS5 is outselling Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S. Sony offers us gross sales knowledge, Microsoft hasn’t in years. You usually don’t keep quiet about that stuff when the information is nice. And new knowledge appears to point what all of us suspected: The Xbox Series X/S is getting shellacked by the PS5, with probably two PS5s offered for each one Xbox.
Microsoft’s Xbox gross sales have been a thriller since 2016, when the corporate stopped reporting {hardware} gross sales. During Microsoft’s regulatory battles that occurred as part of its journey to buy Activision Blizzard, we discovered that the PS4 outsold the Xbox 2:1. Now, a monetary report detailing the variety of next-gen consoles out within the wild appears to disclose, with a little bit of serviette math, that Microsoft’s newest console ain’t doing any higher.
According to a slide from Take-Two Games’ Q3 monetary report, about 77 million “Gen 9” consoles have been offered as of December 2023. Gen 9 represents Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Figuring out how a lot of that 77 million is Xbox and the way a lot is PS5 isn’t too difficult, even when Microsoft refuses to supply gross sales stats. Instead, we are able to take a look at Sony’s stats, which in December 2023 revealed that 50 million PS5s had been offered to customers. Assuming Sony has offered 1,000,000 or so extra consoles since then, it’s doubtless that Xbox has solely offered about 25 million consoles worldwide. Add all of it up and Sony’s PS5 has doubtless offered twice in addition to Xbox Series X/S.
Normally, this knowledge wouldn’t be too thrilling and wouldn’t set off too many fireplace alarms on-line, however needless to say proper now a variety of Xbox devoted are ready to see what the way forward for the model will probably be after reviews got here out that instructed huge exclusives, like Starfield, may make their option to PS5. It’s set off an enormous firestorm as individuals wait to listen to from Xbox boss Phil Spencer subsequent week and be taught what the way forward for Xbox seems like.
More knowledge displaying how not-so-hot Xbox consoles promote isn’t serving to calm these of us down as they fear in regards to the unlikely state of affairs of Microsoft pulling a Sega, ditching its consoles, and publishing its video games on all platforms. Next week can’t come quickly sufficient.
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