When will the Switch pass 160M?

[XtremeBG]

I've now updated the OG post, with a comparison table of the shipment numbers of both consoles, you can look at this there, and also added total lifetime table for the PS2 as well as some extra info under the tables which you can take a look at. When you look at the comparison table of the shipments, it looks like everything is in favor of the Switch. It's still doing shipments near the 1M mark each quarter, and on top of that it's lifetime difference is 20M+ as of this moment. The last quarter ending in September, was the same quarter ending in September for the 2008 year for the PS2 which was at 133.4M at this time, more than 20M behind Switch latest number of 154M. Also we barely passed the point (looking at lifetime) where Switch was at the top of it's difference with the PS2 at 24M advantage in the end of 2023. It's difference is now dropping, but it only dropped less than 4M for 2 years, and if you look at it from this side, it looks like it's impossible that difference to drop to 0 or even in the minus (which will be the case if it doesn't reach the 160M in the end). Irony of ironies: the two most successful consoles, the PS2 and the Switch, launched almost on the same day - March 4th and March 3rd respectively - making them a perfect fit for period-based comparisons, including fiscal years and of course sales.

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 16 November 2025