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Nintendo Switch Console Crosses 100 Million in Sales
posted on by Alex Mateo
Nintendo's latest earnings release reported on Thursday that the company's Nintendo Switch console has sold about 103.54 million units worldwide as of December 31, This number includes sales for the Nintendo Switch, Lite, and OLED consoles. The Switch has now surpassed the Nintendo Wii's lifetime sales of 101.63 million.
The company sold about 10.67 million Switch units between September and December. For the fiscal year so far, Nintendo has sold 11.79 million Switch units, 3.17 million Switch Lite units, and 3.99 million Switch OLED units.
The company sold about 179.29 million units of software for the console between April 1 and December 31.
The company revealed updated game sales as of December 31, including:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 43.35 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 37.62 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 27.40 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 25.80 million
- Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield: 23.90 million
- Super Mario Odyssey: 23.02 million
- Super Mario Party: 17.39 million
- Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!: 14.33 million
- Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl: 13.97 million
- Ring Fit Adventure: 13.53 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 12.72 million
- Luigi's Mansion 3: 11.04 million
Net sales for the first nine months of the current fiscal year declined by 6.0% compared to last year. Gross profit also declined by 2.5% compared to last year.
The Switch had sold 92.87 million units worldwide as of September 30.
Nikkei Asia reported that Nintendo will only be able to produce about 24 million units of the Nintendo Switch, about 20% less than its previously planned production estimate of 30 million units, for the fiscal year ending in March 2022. This number includes the newer Switch OLED model and Switch Lite consoles. Nintendo released the new OLED model of its Nintendo Switch console on October 8.
The Switch hybrid home and handheld console debuted on March 3, 2017. The Switch is the company's third best-selling console behind the Nintendo DS and Game Boy.
Source: Nintendo via Siliconera
