PS5 Sells Over 1.1M, NS Tops 150M - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for March 2025

The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console worldwide with 1,137,164 units sold for March 2025, according to VGChartz estimates. The PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 75.28 million units lifetime worldwide.

The Nintendo Switch sold an estimated 547,216 units to bring its lifetime sales to 150.25 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 263,531 units to bring their lifetime sales to 32.73 million units.

[dveio]

Year-on-year so far:

PS5

• Jan. -31%
• Feb. -7%
• Mar. -11.1%

X|S

• Jan. -48%
• Feb. -21%
• Mar. -27.5%

[GotGame818]

NS, is dominating!

[Loktai]

Switch guys have a lot to be happy about for sure when it comes to how popular their machine is- (I own 4 , or I should say my household has 4 and uses 3, all OLEDs and one disused launch Switch ( mine) sitting in a drawer someplace) NS came out several years before either of the other two boxes, and at a considerably lower price, it also is selling less than half of PS5 currently, but still double the xbox, but combining xbox and PS5 the Switch is doing around 40% of the sales on hardware - which is pretty good but its also basically a handheld and straddles two markets. Adjusted for price, the PS5 has sold more value, and adjusted for time and price, the dollar percentage of the market is heavily Sony. The switch def has a huge portion of the kid and casual market and often sells multiple per household.

[Scissorman]

Funny how the console with 'no games' outsells its key competitor by nearly 1 million units.

[Dhika]

Xbox fans now only have gamepass to brag about and how they always get day one "free" games haha

[dveio]

Game Pass shows its full conceptual strength seen in times like these:

Many games D1, you can't really decide which one to play first.

The downside for MS though:

You need those subscriptions, because they lose revenue usually gained from retail.

If this ratio is not balanced pro Gamepass, then it will be an incredibly expensive year to bring so many D1 games into the GP in 2025.

[CrashMania]

Careful, you summoned the alts nintendo shield.

[anast]

..It takes all kinds, I suppose.

[anast]

It's crazy to think that Xbox turned into a mobile app this gen (I called it years ago by the way.). Going from a clumsy but promising start in the 360 to this is shocking. The levels of mismanagement in this company is actually stunning.