While the competition between gaming consoles continues, PlayStation 5 is currently dominating the market. Sony recently announced that they’ve sold 84.2 million PS5 consoles worldwide as of September 30, 2025 – more than all previous Xbox consoles combined.
Despite rising prices, a shaky economy, and strong competition, Sony is still succeeding, while Xbox is experiencing its biggest disadvantage compared to its competitor in recent gaming history.
Sony recently announced that the PlayStation 5 has sold over 84 million units, surpassing the lifetime sales of the Xbox 360. This makes the PS5 one of Sony’s quickest-selling consoles, second only to the PlayStation 2, and firmly establishes it as the leading console of its generation.
Console War Casualty: Xbox’s Quiet Decline
More significant than Sony’s success is Microsoft’s lack of comment on console sales. Xbox stopped sharing official sales figures years ago. According to data from Aldora Intelligence, reported by the Wall Street Journal, Xbox Series X|S consoles had sold 28.3 million units by September 2024, increasing to 30 million by February 2025.
The difference in sales is huge, especially considering Xbox used to be a strong competitor to PlayStation during the Xbox 360 days. However, that was some time ago. Microsoft now focuses more on services like Game Pass and cloud gaming than on selling consoles. While these services are popular, they haven’t created the same level of excitement and community as having a physical console that fans can connect with.
Sony’s Strategy Keeps Winning
Microsoft focuses on broader systems and online services, but Sony continues to prioritize what gamers want most: high-quality consoles and popular, exclusive games.
What’s even more remarkable is that Sony achieved this despite increasing the price of the PS5 to $550 – a significant jump from the PS4’s $300 at a similar stage in its life. Despite the higher price, demand for the PS5 is incredibly strong, and Sony says this generation of consoles is already its most profitable ever.
Sony’s gaming division has consistently increased its revenue with each new PlayStation console, starting with the original PS1 and continuing today with the PS5.
A Victory 10 Years in the Making
IGN notes that Xbox 360 sales likely saw a small boost after Microsoft stopped official support in 2016. Even factoring that in, the PlayStation 5 has now surpassed the lifetime sales of every Xbox console ever made, and it’s still only about three years into its run. With a PlayStation 6 potentially coming in the future and more exclusive games planned, Sony seems poised to continue its success for quite some time.
It’s still unclear what Microsoft will do next with Xbox. They could focus heavily on cloud gaming, become a company that simply makes games for all platforms, or settle for Xbox being a smaller player in the console market. As things stand, Sony is clearly winning the console race, based on hardware sales.
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2025-11-12 16:56