Nintendo Switch:
- Hardware:129.53 million units
- Software:1,088.35 million units
In comparison:
Nintendo Wii
- Hardware: 101.63 million units
- Software: 921.85 million units
Nintendo DS
- Hardware: 154.02 million units
- Software: 948.76 million units
Top 10 Switch titles and their sales:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 55.46 million pcs.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 42.79 million pcs.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 31.77 million pcs.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 30.65 million pcs.
- Super Mario Odyssey - 26.44 million pcs.
- Pokémon Sword/Pokémon Shield - 25.92 million pcs.
- Pokémon Scarlet/Pokémon Violet - 22.66 million pcs.
- Super Mario Party - 19.39 million pcs.
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (released May 12, 2023) - 18.51 million pcs.
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 16.17 million pcs.
Third best selling console of all time. Behind DS (154.02 M) and PlayStation 2 (155 M)! Switch is going great! But I don’t think it will be able to take over either of those.
TotK is selling really good. It should be able to cross BotW. Let’s wait and see.
BTW I just realized DS is less than a million behind PS 2! Wow, what a close one.
Thanks for the link, and posting the summary!
@slimerancher
@picandocodigo it’s averaging about 20M units a year, so assuming Switch 2 makes the Switch 1 totally obsolete, we’d need another year+ of strong sales to rise to number one. If the Switch 1 continues to be sold after Switch 2 is released (not fully backwards compatible, Switch 1 price drop, Switch 2 is just more expensive), then less than a year or strong sales plus another couple years of long tail sales to get over the hump.
If it overtakes, I can imagine the most likely scenario to make it happen are - Switch 2 is considered unambiguous successor at $350-$400, Switch 1 price drop of only like $25-$50, basically just to clearance out the old stock, except no switch lite replacement for the first year, so the now $150-$175 switch lite continues to to rack up sales at a ridiculously apealing price. Obviously they could easily reach 1at place if they did a really agressive price drop but that doesn’t seem likely for nintendo at all- a small price drop on the lite, especially if the choices are $150 Lite, $250 V2, $300 OLED, $400 Switch 2
That’s interesting.
If Switch 2 is completely backwards compatible with Switch games, and Switch ( or Switch Lite) is much cheaper than Switch 2, I can see some people getting Switch instead.
Let’s see what happens.
My Switch games collection is the biggest games collection I’ve ever had, so it better be backwards compatible 😅
Haha, same here. Not counting subscription games, my Switch games library is bigger than my PS5, PS3 and PS Vita’s library combined.
The Nintendo Switch will absolutely pass the ps2.
ps2 had multiple price cuts. The Nintendo Switch has had none.