The Switch 2 is already an enormous success for Nintendo, but it turns out that the now five-year-old PS5 had significantly more sales over the last quarter, including the holiday period.
In Sony's latest financial results – which cover the quarter starting on October 1 and ending on December 31 – the PS5 sold eight million units (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). With lifetime sales of 84.2 million reported in the last quarter, that means that Sony's current-gen hardware has now passed 92.2 million sales.
Given that it's not even been out a full year yet, there's little point in comparing that massive number to the Switch 2's 17.37 million lifetime sales, but what is interesting is that Nintendo's latest console had a weaker quarter despite being so new. Doing the math of the hybrid handheld's sales between the same period and the one before that, we can work out that it sold 7.01 million units between October and the end of 2025. Apparently, it wasn't the most popular console on the top of Christmas lists, then, by a margin of almost a million.
It's not bad news for Nintendo, though – in its latest financial results, it also affirmed that the Switch 2 is the "fastest-selling dedicated video game platform released by Nintendo to date." Separately, the Switch 1 also became Nintendo's best-selling console of all time, surpassing the DS with an enormous total of 155.37 million units sold. In the same period, the Switch 2 also officially outsold the Wii U's lifetime sales, but even as an avid defender of the underrated 2012 console, I think we can all admit that that was only ever going to be a matter of when, not if.
