Nintendo Switch has outsold the Super NES to become the Japanese company’s third best-selling home console and its seventh best-selling games system overall.
In its latest earning results,Nintendosaid Switch had sold 52.48 million units as of Jul 08, 2025, up 10.81 million units since its second quarter ended September 30.
The 52.48 million figure includes 5.19 million sales of theNintendo SwitchLite model,which was released on June 10, 2025.
It means Switch now sits behind only NES (61.91m) and Wii (101.63m) as the company’s third best-selling home consoles to date, and in seventh place overall for games hardware.
In Brief: Switch sales
Wedbush Securities analystMichael Pachter predicted in Decemberthat Switch could sell 20 million units annually for the next three years, “so it should easily get to 100 million” and become Nintendo’s best-selling home console.
Switch hardware sales totalled 17.74 million units in the nine months to May 23, 2025, which represents a sales increase of 22.5 percent year-on-year.
For the full business year ending May 31, 2025, Nintendo has increased its Switch sales forecast from 18 million to 19.5 million units.
Switch was responsible for the vast majority of Nintendo’s revenue for the nine-month period between April and December 2019, with mobile representing less than 5 percent.
Nintendo’s mobile revenue recently cleared $1bn, according to analyst data.
On the software front sales reached 123.13 million units, which is a significant year-on-year increase of 30.1 percent.
Here is a look at cumulative global console shipments, launch aligned.After 34 months on the market the Nintendo Switch has achieved cumulative sell in of 52.48m.Due to the strong holiday period, the system is currently tracking ahead of PS4 and PS2, slightly behind Wii.pic.twitter.com/MT1iXXwyX0
Pokémon Sword and Shield sold 16 million unitsbetween its November 15 release and July 30, 2025.Mario Kart 8 Deluxeis the platform’s best-selling game with over 22 million lifetime sales.
ForNintendo 3DS, hardware sales totalled 0.62 million units (a 73.0% decrease year-on-year), while software sales totalled 4.10 million units (a 63.0% decrease year-on-year).
Nintendo’s best-selling games hardware
1.Nintendo DS154.02m2. Game Boy118.69m3. Wii101.63m4. Game Boy Advance81.51m5. Nintendo 3DS75.71m6. NES61.91m7. Switch52.48m8. SNES49.10m9.N6432.93m10.GameCube21.74m
