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Nintendo Switch Outsells Xbox One Worldwide

Nintendo Switch Outsells Xbox One Worldwide - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2020 / 41,215 Views

The Nintendo Switch has outsold the worldwide sales of the Xbox One, according to our estimates.

The Nintendo Switch sold 1,149,723 units for the week ending December 7, 2019 to bring its lifetime sales to 45.92 million units worldwide. This compares to the Xbox One with sales of 45.24 million units. 

The Switch launched worldwide about three years and four months after the Xbox One. The Switch launched worldwide on March 3, 2017, while the Xbox One launched on November 22, 2013 in the west and September 4, 2014 in Japan.

Nintendo Switch Outsells Xbox One in Europe

Up next for the Nintendo Switch to surpass is the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) with lifetime sales of 49.10 million units. The Switch is a little over three million units away from outselling the SNES.

Here is a list of the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games, according to Nintendo's shipment figures through September 30, 2019:

  1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 19.01 million
  2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 15.71 million
  3. Super Mario Odyssey – 15.38 million
  4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 14.54 million
  5. Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 11.28 million
  6. Splatoon 2 – 9.28 million
  7. Super Mario Party – 7.59 million
  8. Pokemon Sword / Shield - 6 million*
  9. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 4.59 million
  10. Super Mario Maker 2 – 3.93 million
*Figure from Nintendo for the launch week of Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield (NS).

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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18 Comments
javi741 (on 11 December 2019)

Congrats Nintendo! It feels so good to see Nintendo comeback from being a laughing stock of a company with the Wii U to now a legit console maker that everyone loves. Crazy how the Switch not even 3 years old yet outsold a 6 year old console.

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only777 javi741 (on 11 December 2019)

Not trying to take anything away from the Switch as it is a great machine. but let's be honest it's not that crazy it out sold the XBO in far less time. the XBO is a disaster.

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Chicho (on 11 December 2019)

The top 5 games above 10 million with Mario Kart very close to 20. The switch is a money maker for nintendo

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Darwinianevolution (on 11 December 2019)

That's fantastic, they took the WiiU's failure to heart and fixed everything that could be fixed, and now they are reaping the rewards. Now we'll have to see how well it keeps the momentum once the PS5 and the scarlet release.

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xMetroid (on 11 December 2019)

Never underestimate Nintendo, they really do wonders under pressure.

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OTBWY (on 12 December 2019)

It was destined. Now on to greater things.

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ExplodingBlock (on 12 December 2019)

that's HUGE BRO

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Cerebralbore101 (on 11 December 2019)

Nintendo did almost everything right. Launching in March instead of the holidays to allow the early adopter rush to be separate from the Christmas rush. This effectively gave them two huge sales periods in the first year. Releasing with their two biggest flagship IPs in the first year. Getting a ton of exclusives out in 2019, along with Switch Lite. I'd say their only slip up was allowing Poke'mon to launch in a sort of disappointing state.

Microsoft on the other hand did almost everything wrong. Bundling in Kinect to make their console $100 more than the competition, while less powerful. Attempting to put serious DRM on the XB1 pre-launch. Putting their exclusives on PC, and just having a lackluster exclusives lineup in general.

  • +3
curl-6 (on 12 December 2019)

Onwards and upwards. Next rival system to go, PSP. Then 360, PS3, PS1.

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aris4me (on 12 December 2019)

Well... Switch is going crazy!!! and it keeps going!!!

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Dante9 (on 12 December 2019)

Xbox360 and PS3 were neck and neck when this gen was kicked off, and look what happened. If that's anything to go by, what kind of next gen is it going to be for Microsoft, starting at the third position? Or would you argue that everything is reset to zero at launch?

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mimiku (on 11 December 2019)

im sony fanbois to the core but have this mad respect for nintendo, i mean just take a look at their best selling games all of them is switch exclusive!! Sony need to learn a lot from it for example by not wasting any money for non exclusive tittle like that overated death stranding.

exclusive are bad to the game industry?? which is kinda ironic since most cancerous tittle all these years is multiplatform

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SwitchUP Machina (on 13 December 2019)

You think they can do it this year? I'm not sure. I really dont know what the average December weeks are. I hope so. That would be yuuuge.

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