
Switch Ships 114.33 Million Units as of September 2022, Splatoon 3 Sells 7.90 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 November 2022 / 5,647 ViewsNintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through September 30, 2022. Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 114.33 million units, while 917.59 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending September 30, 2022, Nintendo shipped 3.25 million Switch units and 54.00 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 114.33 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 44.59 million units in the Americas, 29.29 million in Europe, 26.96 million in Japan, and 13.49 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 85.67 million units of the 114.33 million Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch Lite accounts for 19.32 million units and the Switch OLED accounts for 9.34 million units.
Nintendo has lowered its forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, from 21.0 million units for the Nintendo Switch down to 19 million.
Nintendo for the quarter reported net sales were up 5.2 percent to ¥656.97 billion ($4.48 billion) and an operating profit was up 0.2 percent to ¥220.39 billion ($1.50 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 48.41 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 40.17 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 29.53 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 27.79 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 25.37 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 24.40 million
- Super Mario Party – 18.35 million
- Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Pokemon Shining Pearl – 14.92 million
- Ring Fit Adventure – 14.87 million
- Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 14.81 million
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 13.91 million
- Mario Party Superstars – 8.07 million
- Splatoon 3 – 7.90 million - New
- Nintendo Switch Sports – 6.15 million
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 5.27 million
- Mario Strikers: Battle League – 2.17 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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Kirby has a new best selling game.
Wow, I was not expecting the PS5 to have outsold Switch this past quarter.
Nintendo Switch Sports – 6.15 million
Software sales are really impressive, but the decrease in the forecast suggest that the beginning of the end already started and a new system from Nintendo will release sooner rather than later.
I’m still maintaining my prediction of March 2024
Yep, you might be right. I was hoping for it to last a little longer, if only for a cheaper and/or more powerful Switch 2. But this Q2 is the lowest since 2018. It'll hit 19M, then 13-15M after that.
That said, still puts Switch in the top 3 of all time. 19M this FY means that 126M is expected by the end of this FY and 139 will be practically guaranteed for the year after. Then it's a slow crawl to 150M, if it can make it.
The thing is 19 million would still be the the Switch's 4th best year, in comparison, you wouldn't forecast to sell close to 20 million units if it was close to end. 10 million or lower would indicate "ok we realize our sales will not be as strong as ever")
Keep in mind that weekly numbers above 250k are still fantastic and more than 3DS or PS4 were able to sell for most of the time.
Yeah I was thinking Holiday 2024 but wouldn't be surprised to see March 2024 now. Sales by Summer of 2024 would be getting pretty slow and with no second system to keep overall business up it makes sense for them to bring the successor a bit early.
Sales this calendar year look like they'll be around 21m, but 2023 will probably be like 17-18m so PS5 should take that year by a couple million or so, and 2024 would almost assuredly be under 15m if it went the whole year with no successor which means those first three non-holiday quarters in 2024 they'd probably only be getting like 2m a quarter so it makes sense for them to put out Switch 2 around the end of that first quarter in 2024.
I would say Nintendo could just do a price cut in 2023 and another in 2024 and keep sales pretty strong until late 2024, get original hybrid down to $200, make Lite an impulse purchase at <$150, and OLED at like $280, but with inflation on chip parts and shipping and stuff, combined with Nintendo's more recent philosophy of being opposed to hardware price cuts, I wouldn't be surprised if they just don't even bother ever cutting the price and just allow Switch 2 to completely kill the Switch on launch by coming out at the same price point.
If Switch 2 is only ~16 months away it should be a good last 16 months at least. Got Pokemon about to hit, BotW2, Prime 4, Pikmin 4, and presumably Prime 1 remake and stuff like DK and 2d Mario, and who knows what else. And if successor launches a few months into 2024 then probably all the big games will come in 2023. I really hope they have a 2D Mario coming out soon, because it would make sense to launch it with a decent amount of time before successor comes out and ya gotta assume they would want it on a system with like 130m sales at launch rather than on a new system. Though I suppose they could do it as a cross gen game on the Switch 2 launch, I bet it'd still pick up like 10m sales on Switch alone even coming at the end like that.
I think "price cuts" is history now. We haven't seen real pricecut by the end of last gen, only new cheaper models
March 2024 is a right date.
It's pretty interesting to see the totals through the years.
NES with 61.91m
SNES with 49.10m
N64 with 32.93m
GCN with 21.74
and then BAM... the Wii hits over 101m only to tank with WiiU at 13.56m.
Nintendo always seemed to release a better system that has trouble equaling or even surpassing their previous.
In total... there is over 825m units of hardware (console/handheld) sold for Nintendo.
SNES sales are also a little deceptive.
First, the SNES was only supported for half as long as the NES despite high annual sales for the SNES
Second, SNES was artificially killed off prior to the N64 while Nintendo supported NES until its natural conclusion years after the SNES release.
Third, SNES had much more competition than the NES. Most of NES’s competition came in the price of outdated and overpriced consoles like the Vic 20 and C64 (virtually nothing), while the SNES was dealing with the NES itself, the Gameboy that launched a little earlier, Sega consoles, and PlayStation. And SNES was the dominant console of its day.
Even with the competition, I feel if SNES had been treated more fairly by Nintendo, it would have sold a lot more than it did.
But yeah, I’ve seen such lists used as a model of decline for Nintendo popularity. But most of that is coincidental, like how Gamecube and Wii U both lacked killer apps, but Wii U was also overpriced and had only 1 Gamepad controller per system. N64 I felt could have been a bigger disaster than Gamecube if it weren’t for the killer apps (Mario and Goldeneye, Zelda could have been there too if it weren’t delayed all the way to holidays 1998)
And yeah, while N64, Gamecube, and Wii U were disasters, the handhelds of the N64-Gamecube era was booming. 3DS had a lot of problems as well, but it wasn’t bad by any means. The launch of 3DS was a disaster, though.
this is less than i thought it means they sent less than sony. they will probably send less in the next quarter as well. Good job vgchartz any changes to be made ?
It's kinda interesting tho how they are lowering their forecast but don't really try to push it to meet it. I don't think it's supply constraint that blocks the Switch anymore, i've seen it in stock many times now and it's pretty easy to get. But their restraint from cutting the price or even make a better BF bundle makes me believe they will just let it die and move on.
where are this week's hardware sales ?
Nintendo could release Zelda BOTW on PC as Sony did for GoW. It would make the game more popular and increase the sales of Tears of Kingdom in the NS.
If they do that, I will just not buy any Switch, while actually today I am still tempted for Zelda mainly.
does it mean they won't buy a PS5 since Sony released GoW in PC?
I think a closer comparison would be for Nintendo to release BOTW on PC after Switch 2 and its Zelda comes out.
It would lead to people just waiting for TotK to come to PC and maybe even not buy a Switch for the game.