Within the absence of official numbers from Microsoft, Xbox Sequence X/S {hardware} gross sales have been the near-exclusive area of hypothesis and estimates. Semi-official updates crop up nonetheless.
As an example, in its quarterly earnings report, Take-Two Interactive has acknowledged that PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S are estimated to have cumulatively offered over 94 million items worldwide as of November 2024. Primarily based on formally revealed PS5 gross sales figures, that offers us an concept of the place Microsoft’s current-gen {hardware} gross sales stand.
As of September 30, the PS5 has offered over 65.5 million items worldwide. One would assume it should have offered one other couple of million items throughout October (on condition that the ultimate quarter of yearly is often PlayStation’s strongest). That will imply roughly 67-69 million items of the 94+ reported by Take-Two belong to PS5, which in flip signifies 27-29 million Xbox Sequence X/S items offered as of November.
These aren’t concrete figures by any means. Nonetheless, even in case you had been to take probably the most conservative doable estimate for PS5 gross sales post-September, it wouldn’t paint an awesome image for Xbox gross sales.
Analyst estimates final 12 months urged that Xbox Sequence X/S could have crossed 28 million worldwide shipments as of June. In the meantime, the final time Microsoft shared official gross sales figures for Xbox Sequence X/S was in June 2023, at which era the console duo stood at 21 million items offered worldwide.
