Now, according to Microsoft’s admission that more or less confirms this relationship, it can be estimated that as of the latest data we have – data from March 2022 – Microsoft’s eighth generation consoles (as the previous generation of home consoles were called) sold around 54 million units, and at most 56.5 million, Compared to 117.2 million PlayStation 4 units and 107.7 million Switch units.
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However, the battle for the console market is not lost from Microsoft’s point of view: its ninth generation consoles – Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S – trail by a significantly smaller distance behind Sony’s – PlayStation 5. According to a recent estimate by Empire, which is based on reports The companies until the end of 2021, since the launch of the ninth generation at the end of 2020, Sony has sold more consoles than Microsoft – 12.5 million compared to 7.7 million (when Nintendo, whose Switch console was launched as mentioned exactly in the middle between the launch of the 8th and 9th generations of its competitors, stood at the end of last year on sales of about 100 million units) – but the difference between them is “only” 38%, or 1.6 times in favor of Sony. Compared to “more than double”, this is a positive change for Microsoft. When presenting its latest report, the CEO even stated The company, Satya Nadella, that in the US Microsoft has led console sales for three consecutive quarters – a historic achievement considering the differences in Sony’s favor regularly in previous years.