It looks like this new year brings good news for Phil Spencer, at least, although we were very surprised (pleasantly, of course) by these sales figures taken from the UK annual summary, which includes global hardware and software sold in English. country. And it is that as he commented on Twitter Chris Ringmember of ultra-known publications such as Gameindustry.org or VGC, is a really curious fact of sale.
Although his thread is long due to user questions and answers, the summary is clear: Elden Ring and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold better on Xbox Series X | S only on PS5 during this last year 2022. Yes, definitely, and taking the physical and digital sales data, Microsoft console sold more copies of the two most popular and probably best-selling cross-platforms of the year.
So here’s a curious thing about the UK charts. Last year, Elden Ring and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold better on Xbox Series S/X than on PS5. You have to assume competition from big first-party Sony games (Horizon and God of War) is the reason.
— Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) January 6, 2023
Many variables contributed to this result.
As Mr. Dring clarifies in the same tweet, probably on PS5, it competed with its own exclusives, such as God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West or Gran Turismo 7, which worked very well, because despite the other variable , As there was little hardware available, there are more PS5s installed in the UK than Xbox Series X|S.
In fact, if you take the overall calculation of Xbox vs PS, PS4 sales added far more than giving Sony a favorable total, but it’s still striking that the sales, almost resounding, stop being so differentiated in this generation compared to the previous onebecause it is worth repeating that it is indeed Elden Ring, the undisputed GOTY 2022, with more than 15 million copies sold worldwide and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which is the game the most sold year after year.
