Nintendo has revealed its financial results for Q3 from the 2022 fiscal year, and with these results, the company has announced new sales figures for switches. The switch not only joined 100 million clubs – selling more than 100 million units worldwide since being introduced – but now it has surpassed the Wii in terms of total sales units.
Wii is a great success for Nintendo, so the fact that the switch has now surpassed it of course talking to the popularity of the platform. According to the updated Nintendo sales data, the switch has now sold a total of 103.54 million units worldwide, only a little cut down Wii, which is at 101.63 million sales for life.
In the full financial statements of Nintendo, we see that the standard switch consists of 81.68 million from the sale, while the Switch Lite has been withdrawn by honoraround 17.87 million. Even though the switch was launched in October, he managed to sell 3.99 million units before the end of the quarter in December.
In reaching 103.54 million units sold, the switch has also exceeded the original Playstation (102.49 million units sold) to become the fifth best-selling console of all time. The four systems in front of them are Playstation 4 (116.9 million), Game Boy / Game Boy Color (118.69 million), Nintendo DS (154.02 million), and PlayStation 2 (155 million), according to the list of Wikipedia console best-selling games .
Playstation 4 is still in production, so while it won’t end at 116.9 million, we might not expect too much sale to the platform now that the Playstation 5 is here. It seems that the switch will eventually surpass the PlayStation 4 and a boy game to become the third best-selling console of all time.
Will be following or not with Nintendo DS and Playstation 2 is another full question. The switch has proven to be a very popular platform, but the Nintendo DS and Playstation 2 are phenomena in terms of sales throughout the world. There is always the possibility that the switch will follow with the platforms, but still have a long way before doing it.
In other news, while Nintendo said there was a decline in sales of year-on-year software, there were still some games that had performed very well. For example, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has sold a combined total of 13.97 million units, so Pokemon is still a power that must be taken into account. On the other hand, Mario Party Superstar has managed to attract 5.43 million sales so far since it was launched on October 29.
During the first nine months of FY2022, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had turned on 7.96 million more sales for a total of 43.35 million lifetime. Animal Crossing: New Horizon sells an additional 4.99 million units for a total of 37.82 million units sold so far, so while it initially looked like an animal intersection: the new horizon will pursue and even beyond Mario Kart 8 luxury to be a switch. The sales title, the gap has widened over the past year.
So, it seems that the switch has been able to take advantage of the lack of PS5 and Xbox Series X availability. We will see where it ends to close the fiscal year of Nintendo in just a few months, so stay here for more.
