Switch Shipments Reach 79.87 Million Units as of December 31, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing Top 30M - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2021 / 5,298 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through December 31, 2020. Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 79.87 million units, while 532.34 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter Nintendo shipped 11.57 million Switch units and 75.85 million Switch games.
Nintendo previously forecasted it will ship 24 million Switch units in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021. However, this has now been increased to 26.5 million units.
Nintendo reported net sales of ¥1,404.5 billion, operating income of ¥521.1 billion, and ordinary profit of ¥528.2 billion.
Breaking down Switch shipment figures for the quarter ending December 31, 2020 by region:
- Japan - 2.71 million
- Americas - 4.49 million
- Europe - 2.97 million
- Other - 1.30 million
Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 33.41 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 31.18 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 22.85 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 21.45 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 20.35 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 20.23 million
- Super Mario Party – 13.82 million
- Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 13.00 million
- Splatoon 2 – 11.90 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 9.82 million
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 9.13 million
- Ring Fit Adventure – 8.68 million
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars – 8.32 million
- Paper Mario: The Origami King – 3.05 million
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2.62 million
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – 2.84 million (excluding Japan) (released November 20)
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe – 1.94 million (released October 30)
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition – 1.48 million
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit – 1.08 million (released October 16)
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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Ohhh man switch sold almost 80 million awesome this basically means switch outsells Wii this year without even trying
At this point it is highly likely the Switch will hit 100M by this December and likely outsell the Wii and PS1 before 2022. The Switch is currently the fastest home console in history to reach 80 Million Sold and 2nd fastest if you include handhelds behind the DS. It seems like the Switch is far from saturation as well, its going to continue to break records.
What about PS4? Could Switch beat that in lifetime sales, especially with Sony focusing on PS5?
The Switch is tracking ahead of the PS4 launch aligned. It'll do it in 2022 and continue going.
Q1 2022
532M games sold, elevated Switch to the 3rd place when it comes to software sales (after DS and Wii, 900M-ish each), in less than 4 years. With the current rate, it should reach 1B in 3 years time
Very impressive! Was hoping Switch would hit 80M, but at least it was close. Was also hoping for LM3, NSMBU & All-Stars to reach 10M, but at least that will happen soon.
In 2021, I wouldn't be surprised if MK8 & ACNH join an elite club along with SMB & Wii Sports, as the only Nintendo titles to sell over 40M on a single platform!
Definitely could happen for both. But that also depends on if a mario kart 9 comes out.
Almost the whole top 10 above 10 million. And in about a year, they could have 12-14 games above 10 million.
But I don't know of 3d all-stars will ever hit 10 million or not. Keep in mind they're only selling it for 3 more months after this update. Probably will be close if it doesn't make it.
I don't see MK9 releasing on Switch. I used to see it as a possibility, but MK8DX is just selling too great. They also just released Home Circuit. I feel like we have enough MK until the next system. Fully expecting MK9 on launch day for the Switch successor.
Maybe MK8DX will randomly get more DLC. Next year is MK's 30th anniversary.
Six Switch titles passed the 20m units sold already, could we see ten 20+ million sellers by the end of its lifespan?
Hard to say. Assuming no other games were released for the rest of its life, I would say no. Some of the ones in the top 10 might get close but not quite. So it will depend on what other games they have cooked up. I could definitely see smash making it to 30 million in a few years.
Yes botw 2 is 20+ million seller
Ring Fit Adventure is Nintendo's Final Fantasy.
No
Their big JRPG. I think it's underrated on Metacritic.
For as much as I'd like to agree, isn't xenoblade their final fantasy? :)
Yes I would say haha, is their Multiverse Final Fantasy.
Mario Kart live Circuit sold 1M+. That is impressive, given that it is an expensive piece of hardware+game. Also Xenoblade Remake doing better than the original, I am happy.
At this point it's only a matter of time we see Xenoblade X ported, probably to fill some gap on their software release schedule.
when will VGCharts align to these numbers? In so doing, probably the NS already sold 80m.
More than 80 million by "now"
Nah I don't think so there's no million units gap between shipment and sales switch is already seeing stock issues at some places it's selling really fast I'm sure those shipment numbers has already been sold
Eh. I think vgchartz is about right. It couldn't be much more than 250,000 off. Give or take.
Nintendo estimated sell through for end of December to be less than 75 million. Would be very interesting to hear where people are still seeing shortages.
Nintendo's estimates are always way to low.
In early January there were still shortages in many places.
That’s very interesting to hear. I’m not familiar with Nintendo’s sell through estimates so I’ll take that on board.
I would still assume that Nintendo is closer to the truth than vgchartz though, so when Nintendo says about 74 million and vgchartz say 76.9 million I’m going to have to guess that the truth is somewhere in the range of low 75 million.
