News hardware & software 03 February 2022, 12:10

Nintendo Switch With Great Results; Wii Sales Exceeded

Nintendo Switch sales have surpassed 100 million copies. Thus, the console overtook the Wii and became the third biggest bestseller among the company's platforms.

Nintendo has reasons to be happy. The Japanese company has just boastedthat Switch console sales exceeded 103.5 million units, of which 10.6 million came in the last quarter of 2021. This enabled it to overtake the Wii and become the third most popular Nintendo platform in history - behind the NDS and Game Boy.

The most popular games on Nintendo Switch

To date, console users have purchased 766.4 million Switch games, including 85.4 million between October 1 and December 31 last year.

Nintendo's best-selling games for the Switch console are:

Nintendo's top 10 bestselling games for Switch console

#	Game	Score
1.	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	43.35 million
2.	Animal Crossing: New Horizons	37.62 million
3.	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	27.40 million
4.	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	25.80 million
5.	Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield	23.90 million
6.	Super Mario Odyssey	23.02 million
7.	Super Mario Party	17.39 million
8.	Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee!	14.33 million
9.	Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Pokemon Shining Pearl	13.97 million
10.	Ring Fit Adventure	13.53 million

Nintendo also released updated sales results for its other games:

Luigi's Mansion 3 - 11.04 million
Super Mario 3D World Bowser's Fury - 8.85 million
Mario Party Superstars - 5.43 million
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - 3.85 million
Metroid Dread - 2.74 million
New Pokemon Snap - 2.36 Million
Mario Golf: Super Rush - 2.26 million
Miitopia - 1.63 million
Big Brain Academy: Brain vs Brain - 1.28 million
WarioWare: Get It Together! - 1.24 million
Game Builder Garage - 1.01 million

Nintendo console sales results

The Nintendo DS remains the company's most successful console, with 154 million units sold. However, it seems that the Switch has a good chance of beating this result in the next two years.

On its website Nintendo provided sales results for all of its consoles. The top five are as follows:

#	Console	Number of console units sold:	Number of copies of games sold for that console:
1.	Nintendo DS	154.02 million	948.76 million
3.	Game Boy	118.69 million	501.11 million
2.	Nintendo Switch	103.54 million	766.41 million
4.	Nintendo Wii	101.63 million	921.85 million
5.	Game Boy Advance	81.51 million	377.42 million

Nintendo - official website