Could a game other than Mario Kart take the crown as the best-selling game on a Nintendo platform? Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and The Legend of Zelda, has weighed in.
VGChartz's Evan Norris: "Unlike RPG and Action-Adventure, two genres that deliver multiple GotY candidates year after year, Racing is something of a feast or famine situation. Luckily, 2025 was a feast year, due primarily to Nintendo's latest hybrid console. All four games on the shortlist appeared on Switch 2; heck, three of them are exclusives. Shin'en, no stranger to Nintendo hardware, once again punched above its weight class with the slick futuristic racer Fast Fusion. Masahiro Sakurai reconfirmed his auteur status with Kirby Air Riders, an unexpectedly deep and content-rich racer with more than a little fighting game DNA in it. Nintendo EPD made a big splash at the launch of Switch 2 with Mario Kart World, which obliterated the spatial boundaries of the franchise. And Sonic Team raised the stakes with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, thanks to an inventive travel ring mechanic."
PlayStation 5 ended the year by dominating the Christmas season, consolidating its position as the best-selling console of the year.
"while Microsoft had another dismal year with the Xbox Series X|S, which only sold 24,000 units throughout 2025 ."
Got damn...💀 we are gonna need an alt in here stat.
What I personally find to be "fascinating" about every Xbox die-hard I ever spotted:
In their rhetoric, Xbox is basically king. While Playstation is utter crap.
Right?
Yet since 2013, Xbox is the only console brand that has lost ~50 million people buying it.
Notice that most of them if not all, brag about how much money momma windows is making instead of how great their games are or the quantity of GOTY games xbox is releasing on a yearly basis. Apparently they're not gamers anymore and don't really care about them but as long as scum MS is making profit they're happy as f. LMAO!
i mean none of the ps fans cared when sony fired 8% of their workforce 2 years ago,everytime ms released a game on ps they only post how great it is that sony is making money, they didnt care when they tried to steal games with helldivers, they don't care that the customers are now paying for the concord, bungie and all their other cancelled live service games, they don't care that ND has very bad overtime/crunch practices so the ignorance is definitely not one sided.
@aloy apparently you're now a gamer if you're into the politics of the industry....right
I mean if not for the Switch 2 releasing in June, clearly it would have sold more. But keep on winning..
@cojoni - I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing.
At the end of the day, I own both though. I don't pledge allegiance to one gaming system. I'm a gamer, so I want to play all the games. Not just ones that only release on my PS5.
Its not like PS5 doesn't release its own bangers. GTA is incoming. Interstellar (my most anticipated personally)
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first you said switch coming out in june and when elda proved you wrong that in last 5 months ps5 still has outsold it now you are talking about mario and zelda. it's almost a 6 year old system going again a console that just came out and is cheaper. You mentioned mario and zelda what about PS5 exclusives that will be coming in 2026 and another small game which will play/run better on PS5 and Pro and won't be coming to switch 2 GTA6
I dislike sony because they have slacked off so much this gen with their live service failures but still what PS5 has done is impressive(i don't even own a PS5 the first sony console in a while at that)
@Neonridr
Excuses and more excuses from the "faSt SeLlInG cOnsOle" fandom LMAO! Keep it up!
" I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing."
I'd say let's see how PS5 GTA 6 Bundle would perform soon. It's easily gonna smoke Nintendo's whatever Zelda and mario game bundle they come up with. LMAO!
@cojoni Switch 2 sales divided by 2? XD
Global sales
June 2025 - NS2 launch(5M+) PS5(916k)
July 2025 - NS2(1,594K) PS5(787k)
August 2025 - NS2(1,127K) PS5(875.8K)
September 2025 - NS2(1,079K) PS5(1,157K)
October 2025 - NS2(1,373K) PS5(1,310K)
November 2025 - NS2(1,816K) PS5(3,591K)
If you included whole month december, Switch 2 is in 15M+ range.
"I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing."
Want to bet? GTA 6 bundle for Playstation will absolutely destroy in sales. There's NOTHING on Nintendo that will come close to GTA sales
You love the Switch 2 just like I like my PS5 Pro. I own a XBSX & a Switch 2 but so far PS5 has not slowed down in sales is all I'm saying. There's no need in denying that fact.
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VGChartz's Taneli Palola: "Before we leave 2025 completely behind us and begin taking a closer look at the horrors that 2026 surely has in store, let's once again mull over the best and worst of the last year. As is more or less tradition by now, the winners side took ages to properly fill, while there was an abundance of choice for the losers, but to keep some semblance of balance I whittled both sides down to just five. Let's take a look, shall we?"
Good read.
“Phil Spencer made some rather curious statements following the layoffs, notably stating that ”our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger.” So the company is simultaneously the most successful it's ever been, while also firing people by the thousands. Its gaming division is supposedly stronger than ever, yet it's effectively gutted many of the studios that brought it success in the first place.”
This is how a textbook Makavelian society works, where the top dogs become more successful in terms of flair and pomp with soaring bank accounts, only to realize the foundation of the society is rotten and relatively close to collapse. According to former border patrol agent JJ Carell., in 2025 the US was the largest consumer of human in trafficking on earth, and that slavery in America was more popular last year than it ever was, even compared to back when slavery was actually legal in the 1800s. But activist today will blab about how happy they are. But activists today will blab about how happy and proud they are that slavery is technically illegal because they fundamentally fail to grasp how a Makavelian society functions.
The closet anything has gotten is AC New Horizons. Even then is fell way short in comparison. The Mario Kart series is no stranger to being the best selling Nintendo game on mutiple platforms.
Someone wrote an entire article about this?
It'll likely be the pack in for many years so seems unlikely based on that alone. Yes I know there is a nongame sku available but almost nobody is buying that given the sku with the game is not much more
It's like saying Wii Sports is the best selling Wii game in a way