Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling home console ever
Nintendo Switch is officially the best-selling Nintendo home console of all-time.
In its latest financial results published on Thursday, the company confirmed that Switch has sold 103.54 million units as of December 31, 2021 – up over 10 million since September – meaning that the console has now eclipsed Wii’s 101.63 million.
Overall, Nintendo sold 18.95 million Switch consoles during the first 9 months of its 22 fiscal year, which is down 21.4% when compared to the previous year. After multiple reductions in recent months, the company says it expects to ship 23m consoles before the end of March.
Nintendo blamed some of the decline on the global semiconductor shortage, as well as the previous year’s Animal Crossing sales phenomenon. However, it noted that hardware sales for the quarter were still the best during Switch’s generation, and rising to their second-highest level ever in the company’s history.
The majority of this FY’s sales were of the standard Switch model at 11.79m, or 62%. The Switch Lite and new OLED model sold 3.99m (21%) and 3.17m (16.7%).
Although Switch is a hybrid console that is also capable of being used as a portable, Nintendo classifies it as “a home console that you can take with you on the go”.
Switch still has significant ground to cover if it’s to become Nintendo’s all-time best-selling games hardware. Nintendo DS is the company’s best-selling hardware ever at 154.02 million units sold, ahead of Game Boy (and Game Boy Color) at 118.69m.
Outside of Nintendo’s own consoles, only PlayStation 4 (116.6m) and PlayStation 2 (155m) have outsold Nintendo Switch.
Switch launched in March 2017, Switch Lite released in September 2019, and the new Nintendo Switch OLED model launched in October 2021.
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