- Switch has reportedly become Nintendo’s best-selling console
- At the end of 2025, it finally surpassed the previous record of the DS.
- The Switch falls behind the PlayStation 2 by about 5 million units, according to SIE
Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch is officially its best-selling hardware of all time, finally surpassing the previous record set by the original DS console on December 31, 2025.
The company’s latest financial data update (obtained by The Verge) shows that the original Switch (which also represents the Lite and OLED models) has reached 155.37 million hardware units sold. That was enough to dethrone the Nintendo DS and its lifetime sales of 154.02 million units across all models.
Switch also surpassed 1.5 billion software units sold as of December 31, 2025, far surpassing any system in its history. The next closest is the DS with 948.76 software units, closely followed by the Wii’s 921.85 million.
Still, Nintendo has a lot of work to do if it wants the Switch to surpass the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2. According to Sony Interactive Entertainment’s cumulative worldwide hardware unit sales, the PS2 stands at 160 million units (as of March 31, 2012).
Despite a disappointing holiday performance, the Nintendo Switch 2 has done well in its first six months in stores. With 17.37 million hardware units sold at the end of last year, it was Nintendo’s best-selling console at the time of its release. However, its momentum may remain shaky, as analysts have warned consumers to prepare for a price increase sometime in 2026.
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