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 😅