New Report Shows How Xbox-Published Games Sold On PlayStation In 2025 – WGB

Microsoft and Xbox revealed 13 video games on PlayStation in 2025, probably the most they’ve placed on their former rival’s machine. So simply how properly are the video games promoting on the blue model? A brand new report claims to have that knowledge. Let’s have a look.

The report comes from Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics. Now, remember, these aren’t official numbers as Xbox doesn’t share gross sales knowledge lately. As a substitute, Alinea use their very own magic formulation and peculiar rituals to estimate the numbers. Thus far, the corporate’s knowledge has confirmed to be very correct, however it isn’t with out errors or controversies relating to its calculation strategies, so preserve that in thoughts.

The largest success was Forza Horizon 5, which Alinea reported on last week, stating that the open-world racer bought a whopping 5.1 million copies on PlayStation. This has apparently generated $300m in income for the model, however take into account that accounting for PlayStation’s 30% lower.

Then we now have The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which Rhys claims bought 1.1m on PS5. That’s fairly respectable, though Alinea’s knowledge exhibits that roughly half of PS5 gamers solely performed for lower than 15-hours. That’s a little bit stunning.

Subsequent up, we now have Gears of Warfare: Reloaded. I believed this was going to promote like hotcakes, and but it seems solely 572k copies had been bought on PS5. Alinea claims 202k bought on Xbox and 73k on Steam, bringing the whole gross sales to roughly 850k. After all, Sport Move eats gross sales. Certainly, Alinea says 1.6m folks performed through the service, giving us a glimpse at simply how a lot Sport Move results gross sales.

The third most profitable Xbox launch on PlayStation was DOOM: The Dark Ages, shifting 495k on Sony’s machine. This newest entry within the DOOM collection has suffered weaker gross sales than in all probability anticipated, though once more, Sport Move makes it far more durable to evaluate success.

I’ll break down the remaining in a desk under, so you may see the lot. Notably, Alinea’s knowledge doesn’t embody Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which has had a a lot weaker yr than regular however nonetheless in all probability bought thousands and thousands. Hellblade 2: Senua’s Sacrifice was not included within the knowledge, both.

All in all, based mostly on the gross sales numbers we do have and a few back-of-the-napkin math, I’d estimate $510m in gross sales from Xbox video games on PlayStation this yr, not accounting for Sony’s lower. When you throw in CoD, the numbers can be a lot greater.