Latest Sales Estimates Suggest Xbox Sold Over Two Million Series X|S Consoles In 2025

34mil really isn't bad.
I think price increases and multiplat strategy will have impacted this. But I wonder/hope other revenue streams have been stronger as a result.

Don't believe this for a second considering the source.

Note that the Switch 2 has only been available since June of this year.

…kinda puts things in perspective.

Ooof, this is not good news

The source isn't reliable, but even if it were...how did the Xbox One push 60 million, the console that tried to steal gamers rights....and Series consoles less than 35 million?
That's some poor management choices....

When you are trying to argue that the console isn’t their focus and an even more niche lower selling 3rd party product is more a focus - well that’s spin.

It’s a shame, it used to be the cheapest way to game. And the pivot is rapidly turning to the most expensive.

I bought a Series X this year after my original stopped reading Xbox One discs.

It's a shame what Xbox as a platform has become two million machines in a year is shocking.

There’s a crucial point not being brought up and discussed here.

Both Nintendo and Sony are selling more, but that’s within the context of them both continuing to make more consoles because they intend to continue to sell more. All the sources I’ve read/heard chiming in on the console sales numbers for Xbox—whether reliable or unreliable—have all expressed a similar notion, namely that hardware production has slowed to a trickle (if not outright ceased), and that Microsoft has been selling off the remaining stock at these inflated prices to recoup what they can.

If true, this certainly alters the perception of these figures. This isn’t a case of 2 million consoles sold wherein Microsoft continues to build more as they aim for an upward trajectory; this is a fire sale, this is them bailing out of the plane and pulling the chute with no clear indication they’ll even waste their time making more machines. That’s a downward trajectory.

I'm wondering if this even matters as a metric anymore, given how Microsoft reported that Xbox Game Pass reached nearly $5 billion in annual revenue over the previous year. That's not to say they probably didn't earn anything from console sales, but that's not where the money is for them, so I don't see why sales numbers in that segment would matter at all.

I mean, their "real" business is now in games publishing, the hardware is just a side hustle at this point. That's even how they're pitching the next-gen Xbox, as a "very premium, high-end" product. Maybe we can be forgiven for being trapped in the status quo of thinking of Xbox as a gaming console first, but I believe those days are gone.

When you start thinking primarily of Xbox as a games publisher (the biggest in the world at this point), who just so happen to sell a hardware option, the whole "who sold more boxes" argument starts to look a little insignificant.

Wow 2 million in a whole year? That’s horrendous

If Xbox keeps this trend they can call the next system the Xbox U and seal its fate

Yes vg chartz isn’t the most reliable source but the real numbers being in this ballpark aren’t shocking. Xbox hardware is an utter failure from a sales perspective. You need good quality exclusives to sell consoles and Xbox just doesn’t have that anymore.

They sold for fear that they will go up in price even more. I got my second Series X a month before the price increase announcement for under 500.

Worth remembering, those 2 million more console customers will very likely join Gamepass , that money wouldn't of been there without those console sales