Will Xbox Series X/S make it to 36 million?

[Zippy6]

trunkswd said:

Zippy6 said:

Sales down 39% YoY in the UK for the whole of 2025. Worst year for Xbox on record.

Sales of Xbox consoles were down 39% in the UK during 2025, making it comfortably the worst year on record for Xbox consoles. With the return of favourite Xbox franchises in 2026, might things improve this year?

— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) January 2, 2026

I've done the math. Our estimates on VGC has Xbox Series at 456.5K for 2024. 39% drop would be 278.5K for 2025. We have sales in 2024 so far at 226.6K, leaving 51.9K for December. That would be a 43% drop for the month compared to December 2024. Overall it seems like our estimates are pretty good for Xbox in UK.

Hopefully Chris gives some PS5 figures next.

Dunno if you've seen it yet, but PS5 was down 12% YoY.

UK for 2025. Xbox -39% PS5 -12%

— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) January 3, 2026

Paints a very different picture than the -40% November (pre-bf) did. I don't know what the YTD YoY was like up until then, but maybe BF onwards it was up YoY.