The success of switch in the history of Nintendo is huge: recently the company announced that it exceeded 111 million units sold. The number, yes. born from combined data for the original Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Switch Lite (2019), and the Nintendo Switch OLED (2021).
According to the Neowin portal, the console group sold 3.43 million units this quarter. The distribution was like this:
- OLED: 1.52 million units.
- Standard switches: 1.32 million.
- SwitchLite: 590 thousand.
“The Switch itself remains a hugely successful console for Nintendo,” emphasizes Neowin, “And the numbers are starting to approach the Game Boy (118.69 million units), after eclipsing the Wii (101.63 million units).
The panorama in the pandemic helped a lot to increase sales compared to other companies, since while Sony bet on the PlayStation 5 and suffered with the production of chips, Nintendo stayed in line with the Switch.
While on the subject of software (Nintendo games), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best seller with 46.82 million units, followed by Animal Crossing: New Horizons (39.38 million) and Super Smash Ultimate (28.82 million).
The best-selling Nintendo consoles of all time
The total list of units sold by Nintendo console in its history is as follows:
- Switch: 111.08 million units sold / 863.59 million units in software
- Nintendo 3DS: 75.94 million / 389.05 million
- Wii U: 13.56 million / 103.51 million
- Wii: 101.63 million / 921.85 million
- nintendo ds: 154.02 million / 948.76 million
- GameBoy Advance: 81.51 million / 377.42 million
- GameBoys: 118.69 million / 501.11 million
- Nintendo GameCube: 21.74 million / 208.57 million
- Nintendo 64: 32.93 million / 224.97 million
- Super nintendo: 49.10 million / 379.06 million
- Nintendo: 61.91 million / 500.01 million