Xbox Not Leaving Console Space Despite Lower Sales Than PS5

A brand new report claims that Microsoft has reassured its employees that it’ll proceed making Xbox consoles regardless of dropping the gross sales warfare to PS5. Amidst ongoing rumors that Xbox goes multiplatform, the corporate reportedly held an inside assembly to reiterate that it’s nonetheless within the gaming {hardware} enterprise.

PS5 gross sales outpacing Xbox Sequence X|S 2-to-1, based on estimates

Report of Xbox head Phil Spencer reassuring staff of future console manufacturing comes from journalist Shannon Liao. Liao additionally reported that Microsoft instructed employees final Tuesday that its technique entails “a number of sorts of gadgets.” It’s unclear if this implies a number of platforms or if it’s a reference to a current rumor that Microsoft is toying with the concept of a handheld machine.

A current presentation by writer Take-Two Interactive estimates that a minimum of 77 million gen 9 consoles (PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S, particularly) have been offered as of December 31, 2023. Including extra context to this determine, Sony reported that it had offered over 50 million consoles by early December (doesn’t embrace vacation gross sales), which implies that Xbox Sequence X|S has offered roughly half that quantity.

Microsoft doesn’t have a coverage of sharing gross sales figures so these are merely estimates, however they do paint a reasonably correct image of the console market.