{"id":77676,"date":"2026-05-08T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77676"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:36:55","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-refuses-to-retire-and-the-ps2-should-probably-be-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77676","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch Refuses To Retire, And The PS2 Should Probably Be Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

While all eyes are on the Switch 2 console following the release of Nintendo’s financial results briefing today, its predecessor has continued to cement itself as Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time<\/a> with 155.92 million consoles sold as of March 31, 2026. That puts the Switch within spitting distance of Sony’s PlayStation 2–currently the best-selling console of all time, with 160 million units sold as of March 31, 2024.<\/p>\n

To put all of this into perspective, 19.86 million Switch 2 consoles<\/a> have been sold as of March 31, and the Switch has long surpassed the 154 million lifetime sales of the Nintendo DS. Nintendo is predicting<\/a> that it’ll sell fewer Switch 2 consoles in its second year on the market–around 16.5 million units according to its estimates–due to a wide variety of global factors.<\/p>\n

Sony’s PS2 figure was revised back in 2024 when the Nintendo console began closing the distance. The sales record<\/a> stood at 155 million PS2s sold to 143.42 million Switch consoles sold in August that year, with the number eventually being revised after the final PS2 unit was manufactured.<\/p>\n

Former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan confirmed the updated total in a podcast before it was officially added<\/a> to the PlayStation history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While all eyes are on the Switch 2 console following the release of Nintendo’s financial results briefing today, its predecessor has continued to cement itself as Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time with 155.92 million consoles sold as of March 31, 2026. That puts the Switch within spitting distance of Sony’s PlayStation 2–currently the best-selling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":77678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77679,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77676\/revisions\/77679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}