Xbox Series vs Xbox One Sales Comparison - October 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 December 2025 / 9,143 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 One.
The Xbox Series X|S launched in November 2020, while the Xbox One launched in November 2013. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do lineup.
XSX|S Vs. XOne Worldwide:
Gap change in latest month: 372,748 - XOne
Gap change over last 12 months: 5,811,914 - XOne
Total Lead: 9,202,466 - XOne
Xbox Series X|S Total Sales: 33,876,317
Xbox One Total Sales: 43,078,783
October 2025 is the 60th month the Xbox Series X|S has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the Xbox One when compared to the aligned launch of the Xbox Series X|S by 0.37 million units.
In the last 12 months, the Xbox One has outsold the Xbox Series X|S by 5.81 million units. The Xbox Series X|S is currently behind the Xbox One by 9.20 million units.
The Xbox Series X|S has sold 33.88 million units in 60 months, while the Xbox One sold 43.08 million units. Month 60 for the Xbox Series X|S is October 2025 and for the Xbox One is October 2018.
The Xbox One crossed 45 million in month 62, 50 million in month 71, and 55 million in month 77. The Xbox One has sold 57.96 million units lifetime. The Xbox Series X|S is 24.08 million units behind lifetime Xbox One sales.
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both systems combined will sale way less than PS5, sad times
Xbox One (Oct 2018): 522k
Xbox Series (Oct 2025): 150k
Outsold over 3:1 by the predecessor that itself was underperforming.
Up until the holiday season of 2023, it seemed the Xbox Series X|S was on track to surpass, or at least equal, the Xbox One’s lifetime sales. But as soon as 2024 began, sales fell off a cliff. This not surprisingly coincided with Microsoft’s approval of the Activision acquisition and their “four games to PlayStation” announcement. It’s disappointing that Xbox appeared to view its console user base as less important.
Terrible results.
Xbox One didn't flop out the gate but had a lot of backlash (rightfully so). Backwards compatibility in 2015, Xbox One S in 2016, and Game Pass and Xbox One X in 2017 helped it and helped Xbox Series X/S do reasonably well for about 2 years.
But Xbox hardware sales are dire right now. Worse than most years (if not all) of Xbox One and worse than some years of the original Xbox as well.
We really have to see what Microsoft does going forward, because it's clear for the last several months and even year that Xbox Series has been put out to sea even if it's still in production.
I didn't realize they were only 10 million behind Xbox one. That's actually less than I thought. I guess the Xbox one was doing even worse than I thought it was.
The Xbox One actually started doing incredibly well after the One S redesign. The feeling at the beginning of that generation was way worst than with Series X|S.
That's also when I picked mine up- the OG Xbox One never appealed to me, but the One S was looking awesome, had the 4K Blueray drive and slightly increased performance.
And right around those times they announced 360 Backwards compatibility and Gamepass at 10 usd. They did improve a lot at the end half of that generation.
