Xbox Series X/S has sold 18.5 million versus PS5’s 30 million, analysis firm estimates
Microsoft has sold 18.5 million Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, an analyst firm has estimated.
Xbox doesn’t tend to release console sales figures unless significant milestones are reached, meaning there are now official figures for how Xbox Series X and Series S systems have performed.
However, in a newly published review of the console market in 2022, Ampere Analysis’ Piers Harding-Rolls estimated that 18.5 million consoles had been sold by the end of last year.
Harding-Rolls notes that while sales of both the PS5 and Xbox Series X were held back due to ongoing stock shortages, Xbox managed to slightly increase its share of unit sales over the past year due to the more widely available Xbox Series S.
“However,” he notes, “the level of demand for Series S during the holiday season, even with pricing promotions, suggests that it does not have the high-end pull of its bigger brother.”
Last month Sony announced that it was now “much easier” to find a PS5, claiming that its hardware shortage was coming to an end, while Microsoft has yet to make a similar claim for the Xbox Series X.
As such, Harding-Rolls predicts that the sales gap between PS5 and Xbox Series X/S will increase in the first half of 2023, at least until Xbox Series X shortages end.
“Availability of PlayStation 5 improved towards the end of the year, especially in the US, and global stock has been much more regularly available in 2023,” he explained.
“Ampere expects the gap between PlayStation and Xbox unit sales to widen in the first half of 2023, with Xbox Series X only becoming more consistently available in the second half of the year.”
Elsewhere in his analysis, Harding-Rolls claims that Microsoft’s share of the gaming market – combining sales of hardware,
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