In its latest earnings release, Nintendo has revealed that the Nintendo Switch has sold 152.12 million units worldwide as of March 31, 2025, with a total of 1.26 million Switch hardware and 31.43 million software sold during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
The 10 best-selling first-party Switch titles, also updated for the period ended March 31, 2025, have been revealed:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 68.20 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 47.82 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 36.24 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 32.81 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 29.28 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 26.79 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.72 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 21.73 million
- Super Mario Party – 21.16 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 18.25 million
Now watch as Sony moves the goalpost again saying the PS2 sold more than that.
I was just thinking the same thing.
“I just need to find 11,780 more PS2 units sold. …You should want a serious sales report, gimme a break.”
I hope it overtakes ps2, it deserves too.
Ps2 was popular, but it was also a dvd player and people bought it for that reason too back along.
To be fair I never watched a dvd on my ps2 only games
To be fair I never used my ps2 as a dvd player only games. A nice bonus but not why I got more than knenof them
Still not beating the Nintendo DS, but pretty much level with it. The Nintendo DS did very well since it was also in competition with the very popular Nintendo Wii. The Switch is only competing with itself. So you could say Nintendo’s popularity has declined a little since those days. But Nintendo’s popularity could be much much higher with the Switch 2, especially considering the dismal efforts from Xbox and Sony. I don’t expect the PS6 to be much different from the PS5, just more digital, but I do expect the next Xbox to be more grander then this current gen.
I do think the original switch will beat the Nintendo DS sales by May next year, especially since Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Legends AZ are looming in the future, plus many people not managing to get a Switch 2 this year. I would say that beating the PS2 sales figures might not be possible now, especially with people gravitating towards Switch 2, and the new Mario Kart also putting a decline on the Mario Kart 8 sales figures.
Sony was (very) lucky at the time that their console was imposed, between the abandonment of consoles by Sega (and especially their too many errors), the desire of consumers to have a cheap DVD player (so the ps2), its first games were horrible, badly made and not very worthy of interest…
Worse, some Dreamcast games ported to PS2 clearly showed that it had nothing to envy it, only the opposite!
And Nintendo also didn’t have luck on their side with the pandemic ?
Also outside of BotW. Their launch line up was atrocious.
I bet this overtakes PS4 sales.
For a long time! PS4 has about 117 million copies sales. Only PS2 matters now, and Switch gonna become the best selling console ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
Switch overtook PS4 sales for a long time! Now only PS2 matters and Switch is gonna become the best selling console ever! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
It’s going to surpass the DS, but when it gets closer to PS2, Sony will suddenly “find” PS2 sales they somehow overlooked the last 25 years. I wonder why they’re so hellbent on keeping PS2 as the highest ever? The thing’s actual sales were never truly revealed after revealing 150 million, because PS3 sales got lumped together with PS2 in future reports, and then their former leader says yeah, it actually reached 160 million after we suddenly found 10 million that weren’t accounted for. Yeah, right.
With over 152 million units sold, Nintendo Switch is not only a huge commercial success but also a symbol of innovation and lasting appeal in the Pokémon Gamma Emerald gaming world.