Nintendo has confirmed this morning that the Nintendo Switch has sold over 155.37 million units worldwide. This means that it’s the best-selling Nintendo system ever, even beating the Nintendo DS which sold 154.02 million units worldwide. However, it has yet to outsell Sony’s PlayStation 2 which has sold 160.63 million.
Nintendo Switch has sold 155.37 million units beating the Nintendo DS
Sony:” we cleared out our PS2 stocks that had been gathering dust for 25 years! It sold 280 million units!”
It will definitely get there unless Sony somehow magically sells 10 million PS2s to keep the SW1 from outselling it. That being said, this is awesome.
This actually beats the original PlayStation 2 estimate at 155 million, it could easily beat the new 160 million estimate 😄
Ponies on strong cope they were so happy to hear the 160 number
Really impressive and great to see the old dog still has momentum.
5 million more and it beats PS2 and takes the crown
If you take into consideration the amount of people that bought a ps2 back then for its dvd player, then the switch has already proved more successful by a long shot.
1-upping Sony is such an inconsequential detail to the success of the Switch that changes absolutely nothing at either company, that it hardly matters what individual reason a person bought a PS2 for. Even if it sells the same or more on paper, there could still be more produced PS2’s in existence than Switch units, but what does it matter if more PS2s were manufactured than any other console? It just doesn’t mean anything and neither does the purchasing reasons.
Funny,
It doesn’t matter now lol but it was a huge deal before, and even not that long ago that Sony had to somehow find another 5 million out the blue.
But now, now it doesn’t matter lol.
If you’re asking me it was never a big deal. Once the Switch sold 100 million it was a recognizable success. It was profitable at even less than that. Plenty of people have called the Switch the best console ever. Likewise with the PS2, and not because of its total sales and DVD playback
Now this is outstanding. Since the Switch 1 has prove itself to be a massive success, I wonder how many sells did 3DS sold after the Switch 1 was release?
The PS2 eventually sold for about $99 and was frequently purchased just as a DVD player, which makes the Switch’s lack of discounts, as a purely gaming-focused device, all the more impressive
The discount is noteworthy. The DVD playback as a knock against its success is scraping at reasons to put Nintendos hardware in some purity category. Who cares if the buyer wanted it for their DVDs, every PS2 was still a console and had probably since played games. Exactly the same as any person that bought a Switch simply as an affordable gift but never intended to play it themselves.