The Nintendo Switch inches closer to becoming the best-selling console of all time – WGB
Nintendo has released its latest financial report, spilling all the lovely beans on how well the Switch is doing, how many games have been sold and how well the company expects to do in the coming year.
As part of the report, Nintendo revealed that the Nintendo Switch has now sold an impressive 146.04 million units, with over 15 million being sold between March 2022 and March 2023. That puts it about 8 million units away from beating the Nintendo DS, the company’s most successful piece of hardware.
It also means that the Switch is about 9 million units away from outselling the iconic PlayStation 2, the current best-selling console of all time sitting at 155 million.
There is one slightly complication to that stat: Jim Ryan previously said in the Official PlayStation Podcast that since Sony has stopped reporting on PS2 sales in 2012 the console kept on selling and reached 160 million. However, since this has never been verified in any Sony financial reports, the official figure remains 155 million units sold.
While Nintendo has cut its forecast for Switch sales again to 12.5m for this fiscal year and the Nintendo Switch 2 is still on track to be announced by the end of this fiscal year, it seems all but certain that the Switch will sell enough to take the crown from the PlayStation 2.
People are still buying games for the aging Switch as well. As part of the latest financial, Nintendo included figures for some of its games. Mario Kart 8 has somehow sold another 1.37 million copies, raising a very important question: who the hell is still buying the game? Surely at this point everyone on the planet and their pets have played it? I’m convinced that if the world simply ceased to exist tomorrow, Mario Kart would still sell another million by next year.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might not have achieved the same insane success that Tears of the Kingdom managed, but its still shifted 2.58 million copies since launching before the end of September.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door sold 1.94 million.
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD managed 1.57 million.
