2025 was “comfortably the worst year on record” for Xbox in the UK as PS5 sales also fell

With 2025 officially behind us, we’ve started to get some more concrete details on exactly how the video games industry performed over the past 12 months. According to analysts, Xbox had “comfortably the worst year on record” in the UK last year with sales dropping by a substantial 39%.

Taking to Twitter, known industry insider/analyst Christopher Dring shared some data regarding the performance of the video games industry in the UK throughout 2025, revealing that:

“Sales of Xbox consoles were down 39% in the UK during 2025, making it comfortably the worst year on record for Xbox consoles.”

Considering the fact that Xbox was already struggling somewhat to sell units when compared to PlayStation, such a massive drop is even more notable.

That’s not to say that PlayStation had a record-breaking year however, with Dring confirming that sales of the PS5 in the UK throughout 2025 were down 12% when compared to 2024. Of course, the PS5 has consistently sold a high volume of systems each year and so such a drop is expected half a decade into the console’s lifecycle.

Still, with rumours claiming that the ongoing RAM issues could lead to a delay in next-gen consoles, it will be interesting to see how both PS5 and Xbox sales continue to shift with each passing year.

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