{"id":76950,"date":"2026-04-29T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76950"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:36:26","slug":"xbox-games-on-playstation-have-made-a-staggering-amount-of-money-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76950","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Games On PlayStation Have Made A Staggering Amount Of Money, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s decision to release more of its games on the PlayStation 5 has apparently led to a big windfall for the company, as a new report said Xbox games on PlayStation have made more than $650 million in gross revenue so far. This <a href=\"https:\/\/alineaanalytics.substack.com\/p\/which-xbox-games-have-sold-over-100k\">report from Alinea Analytics<\/a> came out not long after new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said she and her leadership team, including chief content officer Matt Booty, would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-gaming-is-dead-to-be-replaced-by-return-to-xbox-branding-report\/1100-6539586\/\">consider changes to the company&#8217;s controversial multiplatform strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Forza Horizon 5, which came to PS5 in 2025, made up $323 million in gross revenue alone after selling more than 5.8 million copies on Sony&#8217;s console. Sea of Thieves ranked second in terms of copies sold on PS5, reaching 2.7 million units and around $100 million in revenue. Oblivion Remastered was third, selling a reported 1.2 million copies on PS5 and generating $58 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the only three Xbox games to clear 1 million in sales on PS5, according to the report, but Grounded ranked No. 4 with 770,000 copies sold and $24 million in revenue. The report did not include Call of Duty games, which are now owned by Microsoft following its buyout of Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4690414-fh5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s decision to release more of its games on the PlayStation 5 has apparently led to a big windfall for the company, as a new report said Xbox games on PlayStation have made more than $650 million in gross revenue so far. This report from Alinea Analytics came out not long after new Xbox CEO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":76952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76953,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions\/76953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}