The Switch is still behind Nintendo’s Game Boy and Game Boy Color duo in sales. Still, in the run-up to Christmas, it’s almost sure that the hybrid platform, which launched five and a half years ago, will overtake the GB/GBC pair alongside the PlayStation 4, which is also ahead of it…

 

Nintendo has released its latest quarterly financial report, which shows that 114.33 million units of the three editions of the Nintendo Switch have been sold so far as of September 30 (we don’t know the ratio between the base model, the non-dockable Lite and the larger and different OLED display version), so the hardware is still in fifth place in the top ten, behind the PlayStation 2 (~155 million), the Nintendo DS (154.02 million), the Game Boy + Game Boy Color pair (118.69 million), and the PlayStation 4 (117.2 million – but this figure hasn’t been updated in six months!).

The PlayStation 4 and Game Boy duo are almost sure to be overtaken by the Switch in the following financial report (which will close out the 2022 calendar year), as hardware sales are always more robust at the end of the year so that the Switch will do better than the 3.25 million sales between July and September. If it bags over 4.4 million, it could be on the podium behind the PS2 and DS. (As a side note, last quarter saw 64 million game sales, and so far, we’ve had a total of 917.59 million. On average, we’ve bought just over eight games for a Switch.)

Let’s look at the top 10 list with the most copies sold of internally developed, first-party games:

 

1.         Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 48.41 million
2.         Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 40.17 million
3.         Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 29.53 million
4.         The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 27.79 million
5.         Pokémon Sword/Pokémon Shield – 25.37 million
6.         Super Mario Odyssey – 24.40 million
7.         Super Mario Party – 18.35 million
8.         Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Pokémon Shining Pearl – 14.92 million
9.         Ring Fit Adventure – 14.87 million
10. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!/Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 14.81 million

 

And here, you can read more game sales figures, including sales figures for two newcomers, Splatoon 3 and Xenoblade Chronicles 3:

 

Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 13.91 million

Mario Party Superstars – 8.07 million

Splatoon 3 – 7.90 million

Nintendo Switch Sports – 6.15 million

Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 5.27 million

Mario Strikers: Battle League – 2.17 million

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 1.72 million

 

Source: Gematsu