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.
  • Blakerboy777
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    41 year ago

    @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

    • @slimerancherM
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      41 year ago

      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.

      • @picandocodigoOPM
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        61 year ago

        My Switch games collection is the biggest games collection I’ve ever had, so it better be backwards compatible 😅

        • @slimerancherM
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          31 year ago

          Haha, same here. Not counting subscription games, my Switch games library is bigger than my PS5, PS3 and PS Vita’s library combined.