2025 was “comfortably” the worst 12 months on document for Xbox consoles within the UK
That’s in accordance with gross sales knowledge shared by The Recreation Enterprise journalist Christopher Dring, who claimed on social media that Xbox console gross sales had been down almost 40% final 12 months, in comparison with 2024.
2025 was a difficult 12 months for all console platforms, with PlayStation 5 gross sales additionally down 19% within the UK, however the sharper decline in Xbox {hardware} comes as Microsoft more and more switches its focus away from its personal {hardware} and conventional console exclusives.
Xbox’s shift to multiformat releases started in early 2024, with the technique accelerating final 12 months, as quite a few Xbox console exclusives made their approach to PlayStation, together with Gears of Conflict and Forza Horizon.
Not too long ago, Xbox president Sarah Bond known as the concept of exclusives “antiquated”, and there may be proof that the multiplatform technique is working for the Xbox enterprise: between April and July, six of the highest 10 best-selling video games on PS5 had been from Microsoft.
Exterior of the UK, it was grim studying for console gross sales within the US through the traditionally profitable months of November. In accordance with Circana knowledge, {hardware} and software program gross sales within the US had the worst November since monitoring started.
November is often one of many greatest months for {hardware} gross sales, because of a mixture of Black Friday offers and purchases for Christmas.
Nonetheless, final 12 months the typical worth paid for a brand new unit of online game {hardware} was $439, an all-time excessive (and 11% greater than final 12 months), which was seemingly the principle cause gross sales had been comparatively low.
In accordance with Circana, PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console within the US in November, adopted by Nintendo Change 2 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
