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Microsoft: PS4 Sold More Than Twice as Much as Xbox One

Microsoft: PS4 Sold More Than Twice as Much as Xbox One - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 August 2022 / 3,315 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment has every quarter provided updates on the shipment totals of its consoles and the PlayStation 4 is one of the most successful video game platforms of all time with 117 million units shipped lifetime.

Microsoft has provided a sales update for its Xbox consoles in many years, however, VGChartz estimates the Xbox One sold a little over 50 million units worldwide in its lifetime.

Microsoft has appeared to have confirmed estimates from VGChartz are fairly close in documents submitted to Brazil's regulatory body, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), about Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Microsoft: PS4 Sold More Than Twice as Much as Xbox One

Microsoft revealed the PlayStation 4 sold more than twice as many units as the Xbox One did, which would mean the Xbox One would have sold below 58.5 million units lifetime.

"Sony has surpassed Microsoft in terms of console sales and install base," said Microsoft in a translation and adding the PS4 has "sold more than twice as many [as the] Xbox in the last generation."


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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30 Comments
G2ThaUNiT (on 15 August 2022)

Good job VGChartz!

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2zosteven (on 15 August 2022)

without Kinect from the start what could have been

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G2ThaUNiT 2zosteven (on 15 August 2022)

Seriously! $100 more expensive on a device that was less powerful than the other competitive system was a death shot. Would it have had a dramatic shift of what device gamers chose to where Xbox would have been nearly a 1:1 competitor with the PS4? Probably not since their were still a lot of issues the XOne had, but the Kinect bundled in adding needlessly to the cost, especially at launch, was a huge sticking point to many, many gamers.

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2zosteven G2ThaUNiT (on 15 August 2022)

i never even used my Kinect

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SecondWar 2zosteven (on 15 August 2022)

I specifically waited until it was no longer bundled. It was a nice novelty with the 360 but that was it.

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2zosteven SecondWar (on 15 August 2022)

stupid me had to have it day 1, my kids enjoyed 360 version.

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Mandalore76 SecondWar (on 15 August 2022)

Same here. I waited a year for Kinect to be removed, and think I got it on sale for $379 the 2nd Christmas it was out.

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VAMatt G2ThaUNiT (on 15 August 2022)

My guess is they're probably would be 10-15 million more Xboxes and 10-15 million fewer PlayStations last generation, had they not bundled in the Kinect from the start.

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2zosteven VAMatt (on 15 August 2022)

1 agree 10-15 million more on X1 sales but maybe just 5 million or so less on the PS4 side.

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VAMatt 2zosteven (on 15 August 2022)

Maybe. But, as it stands, total sales between the two stayed on trend with the previous generations (totak units decreasing by several million). If XB sold 10-15 more, PS would need to lose similar numbers if we trust the trend line.

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scrapking G2ThaUNiT (on 15 August 2022)

Given all the headwinds the Xbox One was facing, somewhere between 50 and 58 million units sold is actually quite the success. Compare it to beloved consoles like the Dreamcast, the GameCube, etc., and 50+ million is no slouch.

They stopped manufacturing the Xbox One prior to the launch of the Series X|S, and yet it still has really fantastic software support two years later too. We're just starting to see some examples of games coming out on PS4 but not also on Xbox One, which I predicted, but taking nearly two years after it was discontinued for that to happen suggests software sales for the Xbox One are still pretty good. I have little doubt the supply chain issues affected that, but it's still notable.

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Puppyroach (on 15 August 2022)

50 million+ is a pretty good number and it still impresses how good the crew at VGChartz are at estimating console sales.

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NobleTeam360 (on 15 August 2022)

Wish MS would just tell us an exact number. You already admitted to being more than doubled in sales, may as well give an exact figure. Although at this point, I have pretty high faith in the accuracy of VGC's numbers.

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tslog (on 15 August 2022)

I'm shocked Xbox 1 sold that much. Xbox 1 deserved to sell a lot less, and the PS4 deserved to have sold a lot more.
Now, I've owned every console since the PS1 era. And have a soft-spot ( hehehe ) for Xbox because of the Xbox 360, but Xbox 1 was such a disaster that Xbox 1 selling half as much as the PS4 just doesn't feel right.

And we're taking about 30fps consoles.....Can't wait till we see the best of this generation, and the sales numbers they will provide.

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rapsuperstar31 (on 15 August 2022)

Quick someone with Microsoft stock hit up the next quarterly report and ask as a stock owner I demand to know exact sales figures.

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scrapking rapsuperstar31 (on 15 August 2022)

I don't own Microsoft stock, but if I did I would totally do that! And probably get no response, because if I did own any I'd own very few shares, LOL.

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Brimac19 (on 17 August 2022)

Although I agree MS would have done better without the Kinect it wasn't and still isn’t their only issue. Arrogance and the lack of a flow of quality AAA hurt them a lot. Let’s face if MS would have had a flow of great games it would have sold more systems !!! And Sony’s brand is more respected around the world.

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darthv72 (on 15 August 2022)

50m+ is still respectable. Sure it isnt breaking even with the previous 360 but it is more than double their initial offering of the og xbox. PS2 outsold the og by like 6:1 with 155m vs 24m so to see the XBO lose by only like 2.34:1 is still painful but not unbearable. Especially after the awful reveal they had and bad management at the beginning. Im sure a lot were even surprised it sold as good as it did with all things considered. With the way some Sony fans talked, you'd think it was outsold like 3-4x that much.

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LivncA_Dis3 (on 15 August 2022)

Ain't that stating the obvious? U don't need Sherlock Holmes to crack that

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eddy7eddy LivncA_Dis3 (on 15 August 2022)

Easy to say it when you have VGChartz estimates or maybe other sites, I would have bet for a 3:1 if we didn't have Trunkswd numbers. Xbox One did good enough even with all the bad desicions from the start.

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eddy7eddy trunkswd (on 15 August 2022)

Oh I didn't know that, so the owner started to get faster weekly numbers just before you and Machina did the estimates, right?

Or is just my bad memory haha

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Kakadu18 eddy7eddy (on 15 August 2022)

Other industry analysts also estimated Xbox One shipments. Based on those Wikipedia lists the Xbox One at estimated 51mil.

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eddy7eddy Kakadu18 (on 15 August 2022)

Yeah, without any kind of estimates we would be very lost haha.

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scrapking LivncA_Dis3 (on 15 August 2022)

This is a regulatory filing, and stating the obvious is par for the course with those.

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yvanjean (on 15 August 2022)

Considering the start of Xbox One these are decent numbers; especially since this was the generation that Xbox start releasing Day 1 on PC. What they lost in console sale they most likely made up in Game sales on PC.

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VAMatt yvanjean (on 15 August 2022)

I doubt that. A lot of people that play on console do not play on PC. They certainly lost some of those gamers to PlayStation, which means they did not make up for those lost software sales.

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Dallinor yvanjean (on 15 August 2022)

Not a chance. You're talking about over 30 million loss in install base.

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