Switch 2 Sets Record With Over 5M Sold in 1st Month - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for June 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 24 July 2025 / 35,261 Views
The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console worldwide with 5,443,650 units sold for June 2025, according to VGChartz estimates.
This is easily the biggest hardware launch in video game history. The previous biggest launch month was set by the PS5 with an estimated 2.76 million units sold in November 2020. It should be noted the first month for the PS5 was three weeks, while it was five weeks for the Switch 2. The PS5 sold 4.37 million units by the end of December 2020 (eight weeks) and the PS4 sold 4.45 million units by the end of December 2013 (eight weeks).
The PlayStation 5 was the second best-selling console with an estimated 931,703 units sold to bring lifetime sales to 77.28 million units. The Nintendo Switch 1 was the third best-selling console with an estimated 322,850 units sold to bring lifetime sales to 151.10 million units. The Xbox Series X|S came in fourth place with 144,706 units sold to bring its lifetime sales to 33.27 million units.
Switch 2 sales compared to the first month for Switch 1 in 2017 are up by 3.11 million units, as the Switch 1 sold 2.33 million units in its first month worldwide in March 2017.
PS5 sales compared to the same month for the PS4 in 2018 are down by nearly 235,000 units, while the Xbox Series X|S compared to the same month for the Xbox One are down by nearly 357,000 units. PS4 sold 1,166,203 units for the month of June 2018 and Xbox One sales were at 501,216 units.
PlayStation 5 sales compared to the same month a year ago are down by 144,512 (-13.4%). Xbox Series X|S sales are down by 164,456 units (-53.2%) and Nintendo Switch 1 sales are down by 443,223 units (-57.9%).
Looking at sales month-on-month, PlayStation 5 sales are up by over 171,000 units, Xbox Series X|S sales are up by over 5,000 units, and Nintendo Switch 1 sales are down by nearly 15,000.
2025 year-to-date, the PlayStation 5 has sold an estimated 5.25 million units, the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 5.01 million units, the Nintendo Switch 1 has sold 2.47 million units, and the Xbox Series X|S has sold 1.28 million units.
Monthly Sales:
Global hardware estimates for June 2025 (Followed by lifetime sales):
- Switch 2 - 5,443,650 (NEW)
- PlayStation 5 - 931,703 (77,279,193)
- Switch 1 - 322,850 (151,101,034)
- Xbox Series X|S - 144,706 (33,267,609)
- Switch 2 - 1,921,075
- PlayStation 5 - 348,729
- Switch 1 - 117,050
- Xbox Series X|S - 83,524
- Switch 2 - 1,156,638
- PlayStation 5 - 315,982
- Switch 1 - 66,835
- Xbox Series X|S - 43,782
- Switch 2 - 2,207,080
- PlayStation 5 - 224,066
- Switch 1 - 128,686
- Xbox Series X|S - 7,898
- Switch 2 - 158,857
- PlayStation 5 - 42,926
- Switch 1 - 10,279
- Xbox Series X|S - 9,502
Weekly Sales:
Global June 7, 2025 hardware estimates:
- Switch 2 - 3,704,173
- PlayStation 5 - 219,274
- Switch 1 - 66,775
- Xbox Series X|S - 28,819
Global June 14, 2025 hardware estimates:
- Switch 2 - 467,260
- PlayStation 5 - 193,751
- Switch 1 - 61,240
- Xbox Series X|S - 28,494
Global June 21, 2025 hardware estimates:
- Switch 2 - 378,065
- PlayStation 5 - 171,881
- Switch 1 - 62,086
- Xbox Series X|S - 28,577
Global June 28, 2025 hardware estimates:
- Switch 2 - 494,572
- PlayStation 5 - 171,825
- Switch 1 - 65,453
- Xbox Series X|S - 29,396
Global July 5, 2025 hardware estimates:
- Switch 2 - 399,580
- PlayStation 5 - 174,972
- Switch 1 - 67,296
- Xbox Series X|S - 29,420
VGChartz Methodology: Hardware estimates are based on retail sampling and trends in individual countries, which are then extrapolated to represent the wider region. This typically allows us to produce figures that end up being within 10% of the actual totals.
This data is regularly compared against official shipment figures released by the console manufacturers and figures estimated by regional trackers with greater market coverage than ourselves. We then update our own estimates to bring them into line with those figures. This can result in frequent changes often within a short space of time, but we feel it's important to prioritise accuracy over consistency.
Note that our estimates are based on sell-through data (units sold to consumers). In almost all cases the figures released by console manufacturers are based on shipment data (sell-in), where as soon as a device has left the factory and entered the supply chain for delivery it is considered a sale. This is why there is always a difference between the companies’ figures (sell-in) and VGChartz estimates (sell-through), even after we’ve made adjustments. The one exception to that is when a console has been discontinued and the remaining stock has finally sold out – at that point the figures will match.
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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I've got a video discussing the record breaking launch of the Switch 2 for anyone interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Ym-mVBNw8
Thank you very much for the update!
Incredible that Switch 2 almost overtook PS5's year-to-June sales within its launch month according to the estimates.
I gotta admit I totally underestimated the hype of Switch 2 and did not expect it to sell around 5 million units in its launch window.
Congrats to Nintendo!
What else:
Overall a decent result for PS5 being down -14.8% year-on-year, although 250k less than PS4 is quite a tough punch to take.
Nothing really noteworthy had happened to the PS4 in June 2018 except E3. The difference in their respective price tags really start to widen the gap again I guess.
X|S only selling 157k worldwide and being down almost -50% year-on-year is rough. If this trend continues, that'd be ~80k worldwide in June 2026.
I can't think of anything else but Microsoft exiting X|S next year.
On a side note:
Why does the front page chart logo portray the complete Americas market, but not have the complete Americas estimates beneath it?
Isn't it supposed to show 1.91m then?
That chart is North America and not all of the Americas, which is why there is a difference.
But isn't the logo (or the numbers) a bit mismatching then?
Since the chart flag contains NA, Canada & Latin America.
That image actually combines the flag of the US, Canada and Mexico, hence it represents North America's sales numbers
What do you mean with exiting X|S? like the whole console market or a shift to new hardware?
The console market - we will see I guess. Depending on what the Xbox Next really turns out to be.
As far as X|S goes - I assume it's pretty safe to guess they've pulled the plans of when to exit much earlier than they had initially hoped for.
At arguably <100k units monthly during 2026 at least I would wonder if that's gonna be still a sustainable business decision.
Nonetheless, there still are many 3rd party AAA games in the works for current-gen, so I assume there are many contractual agreements out there demanding Microsoft to keep supporting X|S.
So, I was a bit exaggerating with them exiting next year, but I wouldn't be surprised if they'd actually wanted to.
Ok thanks! But, could not the GTA 6 year improve the sales a little?
Oh it will, definitely.
I completely agree with you. Although I think that with Microsoft’s shift toward a more service oriented platform through Game Pass, new hardware sales are typically tied to long-term revenue streams unlike, for example, the Xbox One in 2015.
Nevertheless, I really hope that GTA 6 and other releases like Gears E-Day can help improve the numbers.
Taking 4.3% of the total market of the current generation in a single month is wild af
Switch lead over PS5- 73.74 million
PS4 lead over PS5- 39.84 million
PS5 lead over xbox- 43.99 million
PS5 came out in 2020 and still had 1/5 of the Switch 2's sales. That's pretty impressive.
Holy fuck!
Is the PS5 taking more than 3 and a half months between units shipped and sold? Is that correct?
There will likely be adjustments in time for PS5 so for now just wait it out until August 7th when quarterly results are released by Sony. This quarter last year shipped 2.4M consoles and with the Astrobot bundles, CoD bundles and Days of Play sale I would say that kept the quarter pretty flat or even up a little to 2.6M which would put total shipments around 80.4M. That would put it around 3M in the retail channel which is way too high imo. Add in the fact that European numbers are less than accurate since Chris Dring left gameindustry.biz in January of this year and doesn't release that data anymore, I would say there is a greater chance of PS5 adjustments happening in a few weeks. We'll see how it goes.
Sony did reveal PS5 had sold-through 56 million in March 2024 (end of FY 2023), while there were 59.3 million shipped for a confirmed gap of 3.2 million. So the gap has been over 3 million before.
Page 14 - https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/business_segment_meeting/pdf/2024/GNS_E.pdf
PS5 shipped 2.4 million from April to June 2024. PS5 shipment numbers were down year-on-year in 3 of the 4 quarters for fiscal year 2024. Only the holiday quarter had numbers up. If shipment numbers are flat year-on-year that would be 80.2 million shipped at the end of June. That would put the gap at 2.94 million IF shipment numbers are flat.
If shipment data is higher than expected (We are expecting shipment data to be flat or down slightly) we will adjust our PS5 estimates up. Unless we get sell-through data again from Sony, the plan is to slowly shrink the gap between sold and shipped each quarter as sales are on the decline. We will do the same for Switch 1.
I predicted 2.6M but was off slightly. However it wasn't flat or down slightly but rather up regardless.
trunks had explained the gap wonderfully in I think the May article for worldwide estimates.
On a side note:
• Microsoft's going to release their next financial report I think July, 31st 2025.
• Sony's going to release their next financial report August, 7th 2025.
So it's not that far away until we'll have some adjustments if necessary.
Article updated following adjustments due to the Nintendo and Microsoft earnings report.
Seeing numbers like this, really makes me wonder what the impact GTA6 will have on PS5 and Xbox. Will it truly be a second wind for those platforms, or will the generation still be on it's way out to make room for PS6 and whatever Xbox has coming up next. Been highly disappointed in this generation from PlayStation and Xbox, budgets have gotten out of control and time in between games has gotten too long.
