Switch Sales Top an Estimated 12 Million Units Worldwide - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 February 2018 / 9,977 Views
Nintendo's hybrid console, the Switch, has surpassed 12 million units sold worldwide, according to our estimates for the week ending December 30.
The console sold 445,085 units to bring its lifetime sales to 12,281,809 units. There have also been 29,669,828 games sold for the Nintendo Switch at retail worldwide through December 2.
Looking at the software sales for the Nintendo Switch worldwide: Four games have sold more than two million units; five games have sold more than one million units; and nine games have sold more than 500,000 units.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the top selling Nintendo Switch game at retail with an estimated 4.89 million units sold. Super Mario Odyssey has sold 4.89 million units and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold 4.55 million units.
Splatoon 2 has sold 3.14 million units, Arms has sold 1.25 million units and 1-2 Switch has sold 1.24 million units. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle has sold 0.99 million units, Pokken Tournament has sold 0.68 million units and Super Bomberman R has sold 0.61 million units.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Yeah, sorry, i don't believe it.
Nintendo quarter report will show that the console is undertracked.
I'll wait for Nintendo's report first and then praise.
GOod news for nintendo just won’t stop
Wow... I commented that this seems undertracked and got down-voted into oblivion :/
I wanna see if Nintendo can keep this pace going with this year's game roster for the Switch being unclear.
Switch it's a monster in sales, just incredible!
14.6 Million - https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/954176578317049856
Absolutely impressive for 9 months os sales. Will probably sell around 20 million next year or more.
a little late and a dollar or two short...but yup
Based on US and Japanese numbers, and the official 10m we got from Nintendo at the beginning of December, the Switch would have had to sell no units anywhere else in the world for weeks at a time for these numbers to be accurate.
The false prophet is here! I mean #realking!
I usually buy a Nintendo console to back up an Xbox, but so far the only thing that interests me on it is Mario Odyssey. I need software I’d buy. I’m an adult and I don’t care about a handheld.
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