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@PaulGaleNetwork That's correct and was caused by established consoles typically topping the new ones which had less than 12 months of sales available. For as good as Switch 2 sales were in 2025 in U.S., this record was obtained also because PS5 sales experienced a sharp decline of 32.2% YoY.

November consoles like PS2, DS, Xbox 360, Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, did not. Systems that released in September, like PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast, did not. Game Boy Advance didn’t with a June release, nor did PSP or 3DS with a March release or PS Vita with a February release. Nintendo Switch came close to doing it, but didn’t, back when it released in March of 2017. Nintendo Switch 2 with its June release and a lot of demand, was just right.

From 1995 to 2024, no video game console in its debut, calendar year, ended up being the number one best selling system of that year in the United States. Nintendo Switch 2 was the first to do this in 2025. Every other system, though doing well at its respective launch and months thereafter, didn’t sell enough to win the overall calendar year. Impressive stat for NS2.

@PaulGaleNetwork @mjreeves823 @rent_hero It's not known how much PSX sold worldwide because back then SCE reported the production shipments, not sell-in. PSX manufactured units were 21.12M in CY1999.

@mjreeves823 @Dosunceste @rent_hero For US specifically, PlayStation sold around 13.5 million units in 1999, if I’m not mistaken.

Here are the best selling video game consoles from 1995 - 2025, in the United States: 1995: Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1996: Sony PlayStation 1997: Sony PlayStation 1998: Sony PlayStation 1999: Game Boy 2000: Game Boy 2001: PlayStation 2 2002: PlayStation 2 2003: Game Boy Advance 2004: Game Boy Advance 2005: PlayStation 2 2006: Nintendo DS 2007: Nintendo DS 2008: Wii 2009: Nintendo DS 2010: Nintendo DS 2011: Xbox 360 2012: Xbox 360 2013: Nintendo 3DS 2014: PlayStation 4 2015: PlayStation 4 2016: PlayStation 4 2017: PlayStation 4 2018: Nintendo Switch 2019: Nintendo Switch 2020: Nintendo Switch 2021: Nintendo Switch 2022: Nintendo Switch 2023: PlayStation 5 2024: PlayStation 5 2025: Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo = 17 PlayStation = 12 Xbox = 2

@mjreeves823 @rent_hero @PaulGaleNetwork I see, not just clueless you are also illiterate.

@Dosunceste @rent_hero @PaulGaleNetwork You're clueless

@mjreeves823 @rent_hero @PaulGaleNetwork Only a clueless person would believe PS2 was the best selling console in U.S. in 2000. PS2 ended up at 5th spot that year (its launch year). 1999 Game Boy beat out PSX thanks to the decisive contribution of the GB Color model.

@rent_hero @PaulGaleNetwork Also 1999 ps1, 2000 ps2. (Guy didn't do his homework, engagement post behavior)

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@KEMCOGLOBAL @GraverobberFND Two of the most positive surprise of 2025 came from Ukraine for me. One is Aonishiki becoming Ozeki by the end of the year when at the start he was still in Juryo. The other was Dungeon Ruins II on Switch, took me by surprise how good and addictive it is.

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@Isoito_ @ursRockrider That's a Square Enix game. PlayStation Studios are already publishing games on Nintendo platforms though.

Next stop

@erasmolbj Tive que usar uma placa de captura e abrir em outra conta pra gravar esse momento lendário pq a Sony n deixa clipar o áudio desse jogo e só aparece a logo do PS na primeira vez q tu abre.

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@DeveloperPerso3 @thomasmahler We are watching the demise of Xbox tradition console model in 2025 but what in 2035? and 2045? Trends like diminishing returns and platform agnosticism are only going to get stronger over time due to pressure from bigger budgets and need to improve the profit margin (or cut loss)

@DeveloperPerso3 @thomasmahler Yeah, the key concept is that the purpose of traditional console and the strategy around it is becoming obsolete by commoditization. Only Nintendo that live or die by its unique hardware/software integration has the purpose/need to keep alive the concept in the long run.

My take on this: Folks, look at it from a Developers perspective: Exclusives for most studios just don't make sense anymore cause the numbers don't make sense anymore. So as much as some of you folks want to shit on what she's saying (and I very much understand why), she IS factually correct. I don't love the titles that she mentioned as basically being the end all be all (cause it worries me that that's then what they'll be investing into, which would be a really bad strategy), but consider this: When we initially started on No Rest for the Wicked, we obviously negotiated with Microsoft as well and it would've made sense to make another game with Microsoft after our Ori games were incredibly successful. We were pretty deep in negotiations already, but when we ran the numbers, it just became utterly clear that losing out on PlayStation sales and Switch sales, etc. would be an incredibly dumb business decision for us at this point since the budget for No Rest for the Wicked was quite a bit higher than the budget for the Ori games. So we had to say no to Microsoft simply because at that point they still stuck to their exclusivity thing and that's how they lost out on being in bed with us. And we're a smaller elite team, not a MASSIVE studio with tons of outsourcers where the numbers make even less sense. During PS2 times, etc., a Grand Theft Auto III selling 5 million copies was a HUUUGE hit. And that was fine, cause those games cost like 20-40m to make and sold for 60$ a pop. Nowadays the budgets have risen by an order of magnitude. The demands are a LOT higher as well. I already predicted quite a long time ago on my X feed that we'll absolutely see Sony follow the same strategy as Microsoft in regards to Multiplatform because developers would just go on a strike if not - Sony didn't even have a choice and most gamers didn't quite understand that and got very angry with me for even suggesting that, but now that's the reality we live in and the writing was already on the wall even back then if you ran the business case. Nowadays, all the major titles like Spider-Man, Last of Us, Uncharted and God of War, etc. all got ported to PC's as well, likely not because Sony thought that's the best strategy to make PlayStation popular, but because developers saw that as a straight-forward way to increase their audience and get a bit of a safety-cushion. So if Sony approaches an Insomniac today and pitches a fully console-exclusive game, a studio like Insomniac would likely just say 'Uhm, yeah, that's not happening unless you're willing to pay us for the potentially lost sales on other platforms', which the platform holders would likely not agree to cause they don't want to carry the risk either. But all our salaries and our studios fortunes are tied to number of copies sold and if you tie me down to one platform, you're drastically reducing the chance of me selling the amount of copies I need to sell to make our studio thrive. And yes, Insomniac is a first party studio, but the same thing still applies: If I'm the director of that studio and I'm being presented a business case where the chances that I sell the number of copies I need to are at a high risk even though our studios fortune is dependent on that risk being as low as possible, why would I agree to spend years of my life on this extremely risky proposition? I could just as well quit and make a deal with a third party and increase those chances dramatically. And we've seen that happen quite a bit with a lot of the old talent leaving all those beloved studios (which gamers usually never hear about cause publishers never want to run the risk of tying their franchise to a singular person). They've now been replaced by bozos who don't have that kinda experience and y'all are wondering why the games are suddenly bad - Well, this is why. Cause you had Spielberg, but you gave him a shitty proposition, so Spielberg quit and now you brought in fresh newcomer Steward Stewardson with barely any experience to continue running your prized franchise and - surprise! - that guy made a shitty game. And you can't really bring Nintendo into this, cause their business model is entirely different. They're completely vertically integrated and the biggest reason why people buy Nintendo hardware is because of Nintendo software. That's historically not been the case for Sony and Microsoft. So hate as much as you want, but given where we're at with the audience numbers per platform and the increase in budgets, exclusives just do not make sense anymore. And if you don't believe the CEO of Moon Studios, the Ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has recently said practically the same: ign.com/articles/ex-pl…

@BFTTtherapper @thomasmahler Yes but Nintendo is the exception to the rule.

@thomasmahler The elephant in the room is still going to be Nintendo. There's no universe in which we'll officially see Zelda on PS5 . And in some cases Xbox/ PlayStation still have exclusive titles. Saints row 1 and Rare replay are only on Xbox and PlayStation has Dreams etc.

@thomasmahler @rpwbrowne When SIE put out job listing like this: "[..] PlayStation Studios software titles across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile. This role is accountable for optimizing title profitability [..]"

@thomasmahler @rpwbrowne But does Sony want exclusive games? and for how long (PC obviously is already getting alot of SIE games)? It will be the bean counters at Sony (SIE) the ones that will push for multi-platform strategy, beyond PC (Nintendo). Devs opinion is worthless compared to upper management.

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