Switch Shipments Reach 32.27 Million Units as of December 31, 3DS Ships 74.84 Million Units - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2019 / 4,107 Views

Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS through December 31, 2018.Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 32.27 million units, while the Nintendo 3DS hit 74.84 million units shipped.

For the quarter Nintendo shipped 9.41 million Switch units and 52.51 million games.

As for software 163.61 million games have been shipped on the Nintendo Switch and 375.97 million games on the Nintendo 3DS.

Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 15.02 million
Super Mario Odyssey – 13.76 million
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 12.08 million
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 11.68 million
Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 10.00 million
Splatoon 2 – 8.27 million
Super Mario Party – 5.30 million
1-2 Switch – 2.86 million
Mario Tennis Aces – 2.53 million
Kirby: Star Allies – 2.42 million

Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast current fiscal year ending March 31, 2019 from 20 million to 17 million.

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.

17 Comments

KLAMarine (on 31 January 2019)

Go away 1-2 Switch!

Azzanation (on 31 January 2019)

Nintendo show that they can still sell a ton load of software without the need of forced bundling and heavy discounts. Smash, MK8, Odyessey and Zelda would be keeping those share holders happy.

Slownenberg (on 31 January 2019)

Smash is insane, it was obvious it was gonna be a 20+ million seller, its still crazy its almost at Odyssey and above BotW in less than a month though! But Pokemon LG at 10 million is crazy in less than two months. Wow. Looks like that might actually sell normal Pokemon numbers of 17 million or so. I'm guessing mainline Pokemon next year will cut it off though and sell even more at 20+ million. Splatoon 2 will trickle over 10 million and Super Mario Party probably will as well. Very impressive.

HylianSwordsman (on 31 January 2019)

Holy shit, Smash Ultimate has nearly passed Brawl, and it wasn't even a month at that point. It really is going to get 15 million+ lifetime.

mjk45 (on 31 January 2019)

So Nintendo revised the 20 million down to 17 million will we see the return of that prediction thread.?

Zach808 (on 31 January 2019)

15 million for Mario Kart already? Has it already outsold 7 in 2 years?

G2ThaUNiT Zach808 (on 31 January 2019)

Not quite. 7 is hovering around 18 million mark or so

DonFerrari (on 31 January 2019)

Great numbers and in line with what I thought around April.

G2ThaUNiT (on 31 January 2019)

It said that 7 of the 20 one million sellers are third party games but only mentions Octopath Traveler. I REALLY wanna know what the other 6 are! I'm assuming Crash Bandicoot, DragonBall FighterZ, and Diablo III are most likely candidates.