In 2025, Microsoft's Xbox's market share of console operating systems in the United Kingdom (UK) stood at around percent of the market, overtaking Sony's Playstation in terms of market share. Since 2012, when PlayStation obtained percent of the market share, the market share has decreased considerably and was at percent in 2021. Meanwhile the Xbox market share has gone from zero in 2012 to in 2021, before sliding even further to some percent market share by 2023 and then increasing to percent by 2025.
PS4 levels Sony up
 The PlayStation line of consoles is a consistent star performer for Sony, and the fourth generation of the console saw Sony go one-up in the console wars. In the United Kingdom (UK), Sony sold approximately **** million units of the PS4 from 2013 to 2019. Although Microsoft’s third-generation console continued to sell well from 2011 onwards, their fourth-generation offering sold *** million units from 2013 to 2019.
PlayStation 2 still number one
 In September 2018, the PS4 became the first of the current generation of consoles to exceed 100 million units sold, and the global sales of the PS4 amounted to *** million units in November 2019. However, it is a long way away from becoming the highest-selling console of all time. The PlayStation 2 still holds that title, with over *** million units sold.
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