Which System Will Ship More Units in Calendar Year 2025 Worldwide: Switch 2 or PS5?

[archbrix]

XtremeBG said:

Torpoleon said:

@Wman1996 NS1 sold just under 15m by the end of 2017. 10m for NS2 in 2025 would be a pretty sharp drop. I would guess that NS2 would be able to least narrowly outsell in 2025 what NS1 did in 2017.

Again, I don't know where do you people get the data with 16 or 15M for 2017. It's so easy - hardware by date tool, and put the filter to yearly.

Here is every calendar year of the Switch:

• 2017 - 13.1M (Launch year)
• 2018 - 16.3M (First full calendar year)
• 2019 - 19.3M (Lite and Pokemon)
• 2020 - 28.5M (Animal Crossing and Covid)
• 2021 - 24M (OLED and Monster Hunter)
• 2022 - 19M (Pokemon)
• 2023 - 16.4M (Zelda TOTK)
• 2024 - 11.9M (Last major year for the Switch)

@Torpoleon is talking official shipment numbers, to which he's correct:

Honestly, without GTA6 this year I'd give the PS5 <17m and I think it would be much closer than some people think between it and Switch 2.

Last edited by archbrix - on 20 April 2025