2025 Worldwide Sales Comparison Charts Through January - PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch - Sales

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Here we see data representing the sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three current platforms (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch) and two legacy platforms (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) over comparable periods for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. 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 2021 to January 2022)

2022 – (January 2022 to January 2023)

2023 – (January 2023 to January 2024)

2024 – (January 2024 to January 2025)

"Year to date" sales for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2024 versus 2023 and 2024 versus 2022 is displayed.  This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.

Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year

Microsoft

• Xbox Series X|S
• 209,729 units sold year-to-date
• Down year-on-year 199,089 units (-48.7%)

Nintendo

• Nintendo Switch
• 563,868 units sold year-to-date
• Down year-on-year 395,977 units (-41.3%)

Sony

• PlayStation 5
• 937,226 units sold year-to-date
• Down year-on-year 423,461 units (-31.1%)

Note: VGChartz 2025, 2023, and 2022 estimates through January includes 4 weeks, while 2024 estimates includes 5 weeks.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.

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killer7 (on 05 March 2025)

All 3 systems down after an early peak in 2023 for the Series and the PS5. Sales are still high and Switch is doing quite well for a system in its 9th year!

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XtremeBG killer7 (on 05 March 2025)

it's still in its 8th year. March will be the first month of it's 9th year.

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alphamb03 XtremeBG (on 05 March 2025)

depends on whether we’re talking calendar or fiscal (with F’17 being ‘Year Zero’).

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killer7 XtremeBG (on 06 March 2025)

I mean it launched march 3, 2017. Simce march 4 2025 theoretically its entering it's 9th year. At least if you go by anniversary. I don't know your age, but te day after your birthday you enter the next year of your life.

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XtremeBG killer7 (on 06 March 2025)

Exactly. The switch is making 8th years in march 2025, and it's entering it's 9th year from then on. Here the article is for sales up to January. Therefore at that point, Switch is still in it's 8th year, haven't started it's 9th yet.

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killer7 XtremeBG (on 06 March 2025)

Ah ok. From that point you are right. But i don't expect sales to be terribly down by April.

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Terramlea killer7 (on 06 March 2025)

If Switch 2 is announced for June on its direct on April 2, we might see a huge drop.

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killer7 Terramlea (on 06 March 2025)

We heard the same in january after the first teaser. Yet it still sold over 500k😉

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