The Wall Street Journal has reportedly gotten its hands on the latest sales figures for the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. Unsurprisingly, Sony is selling twice as many consoles as its main competitor.
Manufacturers like Sony and Microsoft do not regularly communicate on the sales figures of their consoles. It must be said that for the latter, times are quite complicated. While Sony multiplies the announcements concerning exclusive games and new consoles with its PS Portal and its PS5 Pro, Microsoft focuses primarily on its Xbox Game Pass to offer advantageous subscriptions to its community and PC players.
The Wall Street Journal has reportedly managed to get its hands on the number of consoles shipped by Sony and Microsoft since their release in 2020. Unsurprisingly, the PS5 is selling more than twice as much as the Xbox Series S/X combined.
In this graph established by the Aldora Intelligence institute, we observe that Sony would have shipped more than 61 million Playstation 5 since its release. For its part, Microsoft would have distributed a little more than 28 million Xbox Series S/X since 2020.
The graph also highlights the fact that Sony has always managed to sell more consoles than Microsoft, even though the latter had almost managed to catch up with its main competitor in 2005-2006 with the Xbox 360 against the Playstation 3 (which cost much more than its rival at the time).
Figures that are obviously quite painful for fans of the Xbox community, but which are not necessarily a big surprise. Microsoft seems less and less inclined to participate in the race for console sales against Sony. The manufacturer is focusing more on its cloud gaming offering and its Xbox Game Pass to become “the Netflix of Video Games” with nearly 34 million subscribers in 2024.
A strategic decision that still needs to prove itself since the Xbox Game Pass is still struggling to establish itself as an alternative to classic game boxes. A good number of gamers still experience the difficulty of not having full access to their games and only “renting” access to them for a short period of time through a subscription.