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Xbox Series X|S vs Xbox 360 Sales Comparison - September 2022

Xbox Series X|S vs Xbox 360 Sales Comparison - September 2022 - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 October 2022 / 5,743 Views

The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.

This monthly series compares the aligned worldwide sales of the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox 360.

The Xbox Series X|S launched in November 2020, while the Xbox 360 launched in November 2005 in North America and December 2005 in Europe and Japan. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do lineup.

Xbox Series X|S vs Xbox 360 Sales Comparison - September 2022

Xbox Series X|S vs Xbox 360 Sales Comparison - September 2022

Xbox Series X|S vs Xbox 360 Sales Comparison - September 2022

XSX|S Vs. X360 Worldwide:

Gap change in latest month: 25,828 - XSX|S

Gap change over last 12 months: 2,582,542 - XSX|S

Total Lead 5,254,804 - XSX|S

Xbox Series X|S Total Sales: 17,156,998

Xbox 360 Total Sales: 11,897,194

September 2022 is the 23rd month the Xbox Series X|S has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the Xbox Series X|S when compared to the aligned launch of the Xbox 360 by 25,828 units.

In the last 12 months, the Xbox Series X|S has grown its lead over the Xbox 360 by 2.58 million units. The Xbox Series X|S is currently ahead by 5.25 million units.

The Xbox Series X|S has sold 17.16 million units in 23 months, while the Xbox 360 sold 11.90 million units. Month 23 for the Xbox Series X|S is September 2022 and for the Xbox 360 is September 2007.

The Xbox 360 did not reach current Xbox Series X|S sales until month 29 where it had sold 17.69 million units.

The Xbox 360 crossed 20 million units sold in month 34, 30 million in month 43, and 40 million in month 54. The Xbox 360 sold 85.73 million units lifetime.


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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7 Comments
aTokenYeti (on 29 October 2022)

This should be the first big holiday sales bump for the 360, correct? Halo 3 launched September of 2007 and Call of Duty 4 was November 2007. That was an incredible year for games

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Bofferbrauer2 aTokenYeti (on 29 October 2022)

As you can see on the third graph, the XS is already above what that holiday pushed on the 360. But starting next year's holiday, the 360 will start to crunch out bigger numbers, both during the holiday season and outside of it, making it more difficult for the XS to stay ahead.

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y2jarmyofficial Bofferbrauer2 (on 29 October 2022)

I’m banking on starfield to bridge the gap like or to a lesser extent like halo 3 did for the 360

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scrapking Bofferbrauer2 (on 30 October 2022)

I predict this will be a long generation due to a combination of the current systems launching stronger relative to PCs vs. last generation, and diminishing returns on the high-end.

And I predict that the Series X|S will stay ahead of the 360s thanks to the above factors, and also thanks to Series S which gives it an entry-price advantage that will only get better as the generation wears on.

But even if it falls a little bit behind the 360 in total units sold, it likely won't ever fall behind the 360 in actual units simultaneously in use. The failure rate on the 360 was so high, and thanks to improved console models and good bundles it seemed relatively commonplace for people to simply replace 360s when they died out of warranty. The Series consoles are comparably reliable, which may actually hurt them in sales relative to the 360, but not when it comes to the number of units actively engaged with the consoles.

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Bofferbrauer2 scrapking (on 31 October 2022)

This gen launched just marginally stronger than the last one, though in case of XS compared to XOne, the jump is much more pronounced. This is however only rasterization, and in anything involving raytracing, which is coming to an increasing amount of games, current gen consoles are very weak.

As such, I don't think this gen will last any longer. RTX 4090 is already about five times more performant than anything this console gen can dish out, and that's in pure rasterization performance. Mobile integrated GPUs from AMD (APUs) are already very close to Lockhart in performance, and Oberon is only 3 times more than that.

360 already had a very long shelf life, I don't think XS can beat that.

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scrapking Bofferbrauer2 (on 14 November 2022)

The internet braintrust, including Digital Foundry, seems to feel that this gen was much stronger compared to 2020 PCs, than the last-gen was vs. 2013 PCs. shrug

I think we're at the point of diminishing returns. Not so much in what systems are capable of doing, but what the average gamer is capable of noticing. So I think generations will trend longer and longer as time goes on.

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Kakadu18 aTokenYeti (on 30 October 2022)

It's 2008, the following year, where the 360 had it's first actually big holiday.

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