PlayStation 5 Outsells Nintendo 64: 33.54 Million Units Sold Worldwide Through February 2023

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Things are looking pretty good for Sony's current-gen console. According to the latest sales data from VGChartz, PlayStation 5 has now sold an estimated 33.54 million units worldwide, placing it above the Nintendo 64, Nintendo's final cartridge-based console that ultimately peaked at 32.93 million units following its discontinuation on August 30, 2013. An updated worldwide sales comparison chart from VGChartz has also revealed the total estimated sales of Microsoft's consoles, but they continue to fall short of what Sony has achieved with the PS5—20,855,929 Xbox Series X|S units have been sold since their initial release in November 2020, if the numbers are to be believed. Nintendo Switch remains the best-selling current-gen console with 122,769,661 units sold, a figure that's only going to get higher thanks to new releases that include the Nintendo Switch – OLED Model - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition.

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[Uvilla]

All the numbers are impressive.

 

[Grimlakin]

Yes let's compare sales and markets for data at least a decade old. It seems like an article for the sake of findinding data to discuss.

 

[LeRoy_Blanchard]

Yes let's compare sales and markets for data at least a decade old. It seems like an article for the sake of findinding data to discuss.

Didn't the N64 come out in like 1996? lol

I mean, I sure hope newer consoles would sell far more than consoles from the 90s or older, seeing as how the industry as a whole is a lot larger now. Lots more people play video games than they did back in the 90s.

and IIRC, the N64 didn't even have impressive numbers back then.