Switch Shipments Reach 92.87 Million Units as of September 30 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 November 2021 / 3,585 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through September 30, 2021. Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 92.87 million units, while 681.00 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter Nintendo shipped 3.83 million Switch units and 48.60 million Switch games. The Switch hardware breaks down to 1.46 million units shipped in the Americas, 0.94 million units in Europe, 0.87 million in Japan, and 0.57 million in the rest of the world.
Shipment figures for the regular Nintendo Switch for the six month period ending September 30, 2021 decreased 22.8 percent to 6.45 million, while Switch Lite shipment figures dropped 56.4 percent to 1.82 million.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 76.34 million units of the 92.87 million Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch lite accounts for the remaining 16.53 million units.
Nintendo has lowered its forecast for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 to 24.00 million Switch consoles due to the chip shortages. That would mean 15.72 million Switch consoles are expected to be shipped for the second half of the fiscal year. This is down slightly from the 16.30 million consoles shipped in the six month period of the prior year.
Nintendo for the six month period reported net sales were down 18.9 percent to ¥624.27 billion ($5.49 billion) and an operating profit down 24.5 percent to ¥219.96 ($1.94 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 38.74 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 34.85 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 25.71 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 24.13 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 22.64 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 21.95 million
- Super Mario Party – 16.48 million
- Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 13.83 million
- Splatoon 2 – 12.68 million
- Ring Fit Adventure – 12.21 million
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 7.45 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD – 3.6 million (New)
- New Pokemon Snap – 2.19 million (New)
- Mario Golf: Super Rush – 1.94 million (New)
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Breath of the Wild sold 3 times more than the previous most successful Zelda games Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. The same goes for Animal Crossing. Super Smash Bros. and Super Mario Party double the sales of the previous most successful entry in their series. Wow. I somehow feel that these record sales will stand for quite a while...
Not to mention that Pokemon is the highest it has been in 20 years (and LGPE are poised to be the best selling remakes or maybe even BDSP). Also, Odyssey is the highest selling 3D Mario and Splatoon 2 is more than double Splatoon 1.
These records will definitely stand for a while, but records are meant to be broken eventually!
That's why i think they should build on the Switch system and not start over. I could see them releasing a Switch Pro next year and have it share the library with the OG for a year or two before getting exclusives.
Ring Fit Adventure sold 995k this quarter.
Amazing how that game continues to sell almost a million every quarter.
Q3 will be so great!! OLED and Xmas, but the stock problems will perssist, hopefully this doesn't affect sales
Miitopia: 1.37 million
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe: 11.48 million
amazing sales numbers in top 10, all first party to boot.
This is Nintendo's list, so it is only Nintendo's games. I think both Minecraft and Monster Hunter Rise might be up there if it included third-party games.
I don't know about Minecraft but Monster Hunter Rise was at 7.5 mil in early October so still has a bit to go to get into the top 10
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/450935/monster-hunter-rise-ships-75-million-units/
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