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, have in mind, these are usually not official numbers as Xbox doesn’t share gross sales knowledge as of late. As an alternative, Alinea use their very own magic formulation and peculiar rituals to estimate the numbers. To date, 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 final week, stating that the open-world racer offered a whopping 5.1 million copies on PlayStation. This has apparently generated $300m in income for the model, however remember that accounting for PlayStation’s 30% reduce.

Then now we have The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which Rhys claims offered 1.1m on PS5. That’s fairly first rate, though Alinea’s knowledge exhibits that roughly half of PS5 gamers solely performed for lower than 15-hours. That’s slightly shocking.

Subsequent up, now we have Gears of Conflict: Reloaded. I assumed this was going to promote like hotcakes, and but it seems solely 572k copies had been offered on PS5. Alinea claims 202k offered on Xbox and 73k on Steam, bringing the entire gross sales to roughly 850k. In fact, Sport Move eats gross sales. Certainly, Alinea says 1.6m folks performed by way of 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 Darkish Ages, shifting 495k on Sony’s machine. This newest entry within the DOOM sequence has suffered weaker gross sales than in all probability anticipated, though once more, Sport Move makes it far tougher to guage success.

I’ll break down the remainder in a desk beneath, so you possibly can see the lot. Notably, Alinea’s knowledge doesn’t embrace Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7, which has had a a lot weaker 12 months than regular however nonetheless in all probability offered hundreds of 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 12 months, not accounting for Sony’s reduce. When you throw in CoD, the numbers will likely be a lot increased.