PS5 sales more than twice Xbox Series X/S reveals Take-Two by accident

Sales figures from Take-Two person unintentionally revealed the disagreement betwixt the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and it isn’t looking bully for Microsoft.

While it’s wide Sony’s PlayStation 5 has acold surpassed income of the Xbox Series X/S, the deficiency of factual numbers from Microsoft makes it intolerable to cognize precisely however overmuch it’s sold.

Microsoft stopped publically reporting Xbox income successful 2015, not-so coincidentally astir the aforesaid clip erstwhile Xbox One sales began to way down the PlayStation 4. Since then, the institution has alternatively touted figures astir Xbox Game Pass subscribers – though little regularly than it erstwhile did, arsenic those numbers person failed to determination arsenic accelerated arsenic they hoped.

We’ve had indications of the low income of the Xbox Series X/S galore times before, but acknowledgment to Rockstar Games proprietor Take-Two we present person a much nonstop figure.

According to Take-Two’s Q3 2025 net report, implicit 94 cardinal consoles from the existent procreation (which doesn’t see the Nintendo Switch) are estimated to person been sold, arsenic of November 2024.

While there’s nary definitive console divided successful the report, Sony antecedently announced it had shipped 65.5 cardinal PlayStation 5 consoles arsenic of September 30, 2024. Based connected this figure, that means the Xbox Series X/S indispensable person sold astir 28.5 cardinal worldwide, which lines up with prior estimates.

Both figures volition person accrued by this point, though Microsoft itself has made it wide that Xbox console income implicit Christmas were not good.

Based connected the figures above, that means Sony’s PlayStation 5 has astir 70% of the wide existent procreation sales, compared to 30% for the Xbox Series X/S.

For Microsoft, this ratio is adjacent worse than the erstwhile generation. The Xbox One sold 58 cardinal units against 117 cardinal units for Sony’s PlayStation 4, truthful it had astir 50% of sales, if you exclude the Nintendo Switch.

It’s besides a crisp diminution from Microsoft’s beingness successful the console marketplace during the Xbox 360 generation, erstwhile it sold 84 cardinal units worldwide, compared to the PlayStation 3’s 87.4 million.

The Xbox Series X/S isn’t the worst-selling Xbox console though, with the archetypal Xbox selling lone 24 cardinal units. The archetypal console was rapidly abandoned successful bid to motorboat the Xbox 360 aboriginal and there’s immoderate proposition that Microsoft whitethorn beryllium readying a akin attack for the Xbox Series X/S’s successor.

Despite Microsoft’s nonaccomplishment with the Xbox Series X/S, the institution is processing a adjacent procreation console and perchance a separate handheld system. It remains to beryllium seen though what Microsoft tin offer, beyond hyperbolic promises of the ‘largest method leap ever’, to entice radical distant from Sony’s stable.

The relation of Microsoft’s adjacent console is adjacent murkier considering the institution has shifted its priorities into becoming a multiplatform publisher, with galore Xbox games now coming retired connected PlayStation 5 and yet Nintendo Switch 2.

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