{"id":133606,"date":"2023-05-09T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149097"},"modified":"2023-05-09T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:35:00","slug":"switch-hardware-sales-now-over-125-million-ps2-nintendo-ds-target-still-a-way-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/switch-hardware-sales-now-over-125-million-ps2-nintendo-ds-target-still-a-way-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Hardware Sales Now Over 125 Million, PS2, Nintendo DS Target Still A Way Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e335933caac80\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e335933caac80\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Switch OLED\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e335933caac80\/switch-oled.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e335933caac80\/switch-oled.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch OLED\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has posted its end-of-year report for FY2023 and as of March 2023, the Switch family of systems has sold over 3 million since the last quarter, bringing the lifetime total number of units sold to a cool <strong>125.62 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/02\/its-official-total-switch-sales-have-now-surpassed-the-game-boy-and-ps4\">Back in February<\/a> the total stood at 122.55, which took sales past the milestones set by both the Game Boy (118.69 units) and Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 4 (117.2). The Nintendo DS is still ahead in the ranks of best-selling video game consoles, though, with a whopping 154.02 million lifetime sales to its name. And Sony&#8217;s PS2 tops the table with 155 million.<\/p>\n<p>Switch OLED was the most popular SKU in the last financial year, although overall hardware sales declined by 22.1% year-on-year, with sales slowing over the 2022 holiday season compared to the previous year. While the numbers are relatively healthy given this point in Switch&#8217;s lifecycle heading into its seventh year, it&#8217;s clear that things are slowing down for the console.<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re wondering, the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom\">Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> Switch OLED isn&#8217;t accounted for in these lifetime Switch numbers, so the true figure at the time of writing will now be higher than those reported.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the breakdown by SKU followed by their percentage change year-on-year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> &#8211; 6.14 million units (-54.7.1%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nintendo Swi<\/strong><strong>tch &#8211; OLED Model<\/strong> &#8211; 9.22 million units (+58.8%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nintendo Switch Lite<\/strong> &#8211; 2.62 million units (-29.2%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total Switch Hardware Sales for FY2023<\/strong> &#8211; 17.97 million units (-22.1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here&#8217;s how things stand compared to Nintendo&#8217;s previous console sales:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Console<\/th>\n<th>Total Sales<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>DS<\/td>\n<td>154.02 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Switch<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>125.62 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Game Boy<\/td>\n<td>118.69 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wii<\/td>\n<td>101.63 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Game Boy Advance<\/td>\n<td>81.51 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3DS<\/td>\n<td>75.94 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Family Computer \/ NES<\/td>\n<td>61.91 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Super Family Computer \/ SNES<\/td>\n<td>49.10 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>N64<\/td>\n<td>32.93 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GameCube<\/td>\n<td>21.74 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wii U<\/td>\n<td>13.56 Million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Can Switch catch the PS2 to become the best-selling console in history? Well, with games like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and its themed Switch OLED SKU sure to give a sales bump, and with people upgrading their ageing Switches with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/05\/video-we-unbox-every-special-edition-switch-oled\">shiny new versions<\/a>, there&#8217;s certainly life left in the system yet, so we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>However, the year-on-year decline suggests it&#8217;ll be a struggle without heavy discounting. Nintendo will surely be eyeing Holiday 2023 as an opportunity \u2014 perhaps the last big one? \u2014 to give Switch a sales push, so discounted bundles would seem likely.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:149036 @ 2023-05-10T06:54:08+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>With such a huge library of evergreen titles, though, there&#8217;s potential for these numbers to grow even after the release of Nintendo&#8217;s next console, whenever that may be.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you think Switch will ever topple DS and the PS2? Let us know below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life Nintendo has posted its end-of-year report for FY2023 and as of March 2023, the Switch family of systems has sold over 3 million since the last quarter, bringing the lifetime total number of units sold to a cool 125.62 million. Back in February the total stood at 122.55, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}