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. | 43.35 million | |
2. | 37.62 million | |
3. | 27.40 million | |
4. | 25.80 million | |
5. | 23.90 million | |
6. | 23.02 million | |
7. | 17.39 million | |
8. | 14.33 million | |
9. | 13.97 million | |
10. | 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 |
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