The Nintendo Switch Has Outsold The PS4, Now 3rd Best Selling Console of All Time

Nintendo has released a report of their latest financial earnings which reveal that the Switch’s lifetime sales have risen to a total of 122.55 Million Units, this means that the Switch has now surpassed the last recorded lifetime sales of the PS4 which was 117.2 million units as of August 2022.

Addiotnally it has also outsold Nintendo’s own Gameboy/Gameboy Colour which was last recorded at 118.69 Million units. This makes the Switch the third best-selling video game console of all time behind the PS2 (155 Million) and the DS (154.02 Million).

Software Sales

Additionally, Nintendo (via Gematsu) has also revealed the updated sales numbers for the best-selling Switch games. The top 10 best-selling games on the console are:

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 52 million
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 41.59 million
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 30.44 million
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 29 million
• Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 25.68 million
• Super Mario Odyssey – 25.12 million
• Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 20.61 million (New)
• Super Mario Party – 18.79 million
• Ring Fit Adventure – 15.22 million
• Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 15.07 million

Here are additional first/second-party Nintendo games whose sales were included in the report:

• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 14.75 million
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 14.63 million
• Luigi’s Masnion 3 – 12.44 million
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 10.82 million
• Splatoon 3 – 10.13 million
• Mario Party Superstars – 9.38 million
• Nintendo Switch Sports – 8.61 million
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 6.12 million
• Mario Strikers: Battle League – 2.47 million
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 1.81 million
• Bayonetta 3 – 1.04 million (New)

The Switch has been quite the comeback from Nintendo, skyrocketing in sales following the failure of its predecessor the Wii U to become one of their best-selling consoles and even surpassing the sales of the PS4. With Nintendo still keeping quiet about the console’s successor, could we even see it outsell the DS and PS2? It’s possible but we’ll have to wait and see.

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