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Forums - Sales - August 2025 VGChartz Estimates Thread - Switch 3rd Month - Americas, Europe + Japan Out Now

trunkswd on 10 October 2025

Link to the VGChartz article here.

2025 Europe Sales Comparison Charts Through August - Switch 2 vs PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch

Here we see data representing the sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the four current platforms (Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1) over comparable periods for 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.

Year to Date Sales Comparison (Same Periods Covered)

Market Share (Same Periods Covered)

2021 – (January 2022 to August 2022)

2022 – (January 2023 to August 2023)

2023 – (January 2024 to August 2024)

2024 – (January 2025 to August 2025)

"Year to date" sales for 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2025 versus 2024 and 2025 versus 2023 is displayed.  This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.

Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year

Nintendo

  • Nintendo Switch 2
    • 1.77 million units sold year-to-date
  • Nintendo Switch 1
    • 0.68 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 0.79 million units (-53.5%)

Sony

  • PlayStation 5
    • 2.34 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 0.35 million units (-13.1%)

Microsoft

  • Xbox Series X|S
    • 0.37 million units sold year-to-date
    • Down year-on-year 0.15 million units (-31.1%)

Note: VGChartz 2025, 2023, and 2022 estimates through August includes 34 weeks, while 2024 estimates includes 35 weeks.



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

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Norion on 10 October 2025

Not as strong for the Switch 2 as July was but with no major release like Bananza over 1.1m is still very strong and around a million a month could be the Switch 2's usual sales outside of the holidays for a while. The PS5 and Xbox Series didn't decline as much as last time but the latter is likely going to go below 100k a month soon and the former was actually up compared to the same month for the PS4 which is the first time that's happened this year so a relatively good month for it. September should be worse for the PS5 due to the US price increase but maybe Xbox will get helped a bit due to panic buying before its price increase takes effect. Also the Switch 1 took a hit in the Americas as expected but due to it doing better in Asia and Europe for whatever reason it was actually slightly up from July so maybe it has a bit more life left in it than it seemed.

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trunkswd on 10 October 2025
Norion said:

Not as strong for the Switch 2 as July was but with no major release like Bananza over 1.1m is still very strong and around a million a month could be the Switch 2's usual sales outside of the holidays for a while. The PS5 and Xbox Series didn't decline as much as last time but the latter is likely going to go below 100k a month soon and the former was actually up compared to the same month for the PS4 which is the first time that's happened this year. September should be worse for the PS5 due to the US price increase but maybe Xbox will get helped a bit due to panic buying before its price increase takes effect. Also the Switch 1 took a hit in the Americas as expected but due to it doing better in Asia and Europe for whatever reason it was actually slightly up from July so maybe it has a bit more life left in it than it seemed.

Xbox will likely not drop below 100K in a month until next year as September is a 5 week month and October is the start of the holiday period where we normally see sales start to increase. Though, the second Xbox price increase in the US will hinder that. Either way hardware sales have not been good for Xbox.

When it come to the PS5 it was discounted for a lot of September across Europe, so that will help offset any declines in the US due to the price increase. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube channel discussing gaming sales and news. Follow me on Bluesky.

I post and adjust the VGChartz hardware estimates, with help from Machina.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Monthly Hardware Breakdown | Monthly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

curl-6 on 10 October 2025

Yeah September will likely be worse across the board due to price hikes on the older consoles and Switch 2 not having had a big release + the launch rush abating.

October on the other hand should see things kick back into gear with the arrival of Pokémon and people starting to shop for the holidays.



Norion on 10 October 2025
trunkswd said:
Norion said:

Not as strong for the Switch 2 as July was but with no major release like Bananza over 1.1m is still very strong and around a million a month could be the Switch 2's usual sales outside of the holidays for a while. The PS5 and Xbox Series didn't decline as much as last time but the latter is likely going to go below 100k a month soon and the former was actually up compared to the same month for the PS4 which is the first time that's happened this year. September should be worse for the PS5 due to the US price increase but maybe Xbox will get helped a bit due to panic buying before its price increase takes effect. Also the Switch 1 took a hit in the Americas as expected but due to it doing better in Asia and Europe for whatever reason it was actually slightly up from July so maybe it has a bit more life left in it than it seemed.

Xbox will likely not drop below 100K in a month until next year as September is a 5 week month and October is the start of the holiday period where we normally see sales start to increase. Though, the second Xbox price increase in the US will hinder that. Either way hardware sales have not been good for Xbox.

When it come to the PS5 it was discounted for a lot of September across Europe, so that will help offset any declines in the US due to the price increase. 

By soon I was meaning after December basically and that's good to know about the PS5. If GTA 6 doesn't get delayed again things should be good for it until the 2nd half of next year and even then it shouldn't do any worse than decent from that point onward.



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wohufana on 11 October 2025

Asia has become the number 1 console market worldwide.



curl-6 on 11 October 2025
wohufana said:

Asia has become the number 1 console market worldwide.

Asia does comprise more than half of the entire human population, more than Europe and North America combined.

The issue is that many of those people are too poor to afford a console, or live in countries where consoles are strictly regulated. Consoles may yet grow in the region as Asian countries develop and poverty decreases, but to do so they'll have to compete with cheaper options like mobile gaming.



jvmkdg on 11 October 2025
Norion said:
trunkswd said:

Xbox will likely not drop below 100K in a month until next year as September is a 5 week month and October is the start of the holiday period where we normally see sales start to increase. Though, the second Xbox price increase in the US will hinder that. Either way hardware sales have not been good for Xbox.

When it come to the PS5 it was discounted for a lot of September across Europe, so that will help offset any declines in the US due to the price increase. 

By soon I was meaning after December basically and that's good to know about the PS5. If GTA 6 doesn't get delayed again things should be good for it until the 2nd half of next year and even then it shouldn't do any worse than decent from that point onward.

In fact, the PS5 should increase in September, Ghost of Yotei and Battlefield 6 are coming. Not to mention that the PS5 was discounted in Europe in September. The price impact in the United States won't be significant. In fact, it might not even have an impact. Not to mention that FIFA was released in September, and Sony's forecast for the fiscal year is 15 million units.



Norion on 11 October 2025
jvmkdg said:
Norion said:

By soon I was meaning after December basically and that's good to know about the PS5. If GTA 6 doesn't get delayed again things should be good for it until the 2nd half of next year and even then it shouldn't do any worse than decent from that point onward.

In fact, the PS5 should increase in September, Ghost of Yotei and Battlefield 6 are coming. Not to mention that the PS5 was discounted in Europe in September. The price impact in the United States won't be significant. In fact, it might not even have an impact. Not to mention that FIFA was released in September, and Sony's forecast for the fiscal year is 15 million units.

It will increase, I just doubt it did as well as the PS4 did in September 2018 after slightly beating it for August so to be more clear I meant relatively worse.



JRPGfan on 11 October 2025

123k Xbox Series consoles.... in 4th place.... behind the Nintendo Switch.
Wow.