Xbox Series X|S Outsells Nintendo 64 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 June 2025 / 15,168 Views
Microsoft's latest video game consoles, the Xbox Series X|S, which is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, has outsold the lifetime sales of the Nintendo 64, according to VGChartz estimates.
The Xbox Series X|S has sold an estimated 32.98 million units worldwide through April 2024, while the Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units lifetime.
Up next for the Xbox Series X|S is the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive with 34.06 million units sold, followed by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) with 49.10 million units sold and the Xbox One with 57.96 million units sold.
Breaking down sales by region, the Xbox Series X|S has sold an estimated 18.68 million units in North America, 8.42 million units in Europe, 0.68 million units in Japan, and 5.20 million units in the rest of the world. This compared to the Nintendo 64, which sold 20.11 million units in North America, 6.35 million units in Europe, 5.54 million units in Japan, and 0.93 million units in the rest of the world.
Breaking down Xbox Series X|S sales in Europe, the console has sold an estimated 3.08 million units in the UK, 1.23 million units in Germany, and 0.91 million units in France.
The Xbox Series X|S launched worldwide in November 2020.
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 follow the author on Bluesky.
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Nintendo 64 captured 23% of the console market. Xbox Series has only captured 12% of it's console market. Twelve percent of gen 5 console market would be 17 million. Series is relatively speaking, the poorest selling console that didn't outright fail. You have to get into Saturn, PCEngine, and Master System territory to find as system that did worse vs its competition that the Series.
Always a twist to downplay lol
Gaming is certainly bigger now but I would also argue more people have multiple consoles now as well...
yes im one of them
Those numbers are meaningless because you're counting the switch as a console when it's a hybrid and therefore your console market number now encompasses the entire console market plus the entire portable market.
You´re absolutely right in raw numbers. But don´t forget that the percentage of PS5 and XBOX S|X percent of the market is based on sharing it with the Switch, which released 3 years before those and was considered at the time, the same generation as XONE and PS4.
That should fix itself in the numbers since PS5 and Series still have about 2.5 years before PS6 and Xbox 5 come out. Meanwhile Switch sales should enter freefall because Switch 2 is out. In the end it will be Switch 1 sales from 2017 to 2026 vs PS5/Series sales from 2020 to 2028.
Yes, you got it right, your words represent my thoughts. In the end Ex-Box X/S are the ones ho sucks on sales for M$ !
This month I was one of the contributors for the sales, I got the Series S for just 250€ on sale, brand new.
Sweet! hope you enjoy it
- The market is bigger now for consoles and gaming in general.
- Nintendo 64 was profitable for hardware, games, and accessories from all the evidence we have. I don't think Nintendo ever sold N64 consoles at a loss as that is not their default strategy.
- You could say that N64's status was more humiliating than Xbox Series X/S. N64 was thoroughly outclassed in sales by the new kid on the block, Sony, and even got third place in Japan. Saturn outsold N64 a little in Japan.
it's more like 35. both ps/xbox are undertracked by 2 mill or so here.
Even with the shipping/supply channel Xbox is nowhere near 35M. The only one whoever believed that was that bias hack John Welfare. They are barely shipping anything these days with the supply channel drying up over the world. Some countries don't even stock it at all anymore.
yeah maybe with the price increase they might be done making them? it looks like they can be ordered online but you dont see them in store nearly as much.
