The legal battle Microsoft is facing to buy Activision Blizzard leaves us with a lot of interesting information. In part of the submitted court documents, the Redmond giant acknowledges this Xbox lost the console warand claims that in 2021 its Xbox consoles only had a cumulative total share 16%

Unfortunately, the documentation doesn’t say what market share the Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5 had, but we do know that previous generations of Sony consoles doubled Xbox One salesand that Nintendo’s console has been a huge success, although it hasn’t outsold the PS4 until recently, so most of that market share would go to Sony’s consoles, with the Nintendo Switch a close second.

Xbox numbers in the previous generation weren’t terrible, but they weren’t great either. For Microsoft to lose to Sony by a margin two consoles for one (double)and that Nintendo managed to pull through despite arriving at the party years later was a harsh dose of reality for the Redmond giant.

If we look at the current generation, it’s clear that the sales of the Xbox Series X are not reaching the numbers that the PS5 achieved. According to VGChartz data corresponding to last May, the PS5 has been sold so far 35 million pieceswhile combined Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S sales reach higher 21.3 million pieces. The difference is 13.7 million units in favor of the PS5, but if we only consider Xbox Series X sales, the difference would be much larger.

We still can’t say who will win the war of the current generation of consoles, but it is clear that right now the situation looks better for the PS5 than for the Xbox Series X-Series S. That with this scenario, some regulators continue to consider Sony as the weak side in relation to the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is a shame, but we must not forget that Nintendo is waiting for the launch of a new console, which could turn the market upside down.

You can also read in the documentation that Microsoft expects next-generation consoles to hit the market, i.e. successors to the Xbox Series X-Series S and PS5. sometime in 2028. This means that we would be about five years away, and it allows us to intuit in a rough way the hardware that the next generation might mount.

According to the data, it would most likely be possible for the next generation of consoles to feature an APU based on a Zen 6 or Zen 7 CPU, depending on what release dates AMD can keep and that its GPUs use the architecture. between two and three generations before RDNA3.