Nintendo Switch Outsells Wii to Become Best-Selling Home Console in France - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 January 2023 / 4,995 Views
The Nintendo Switch has outsold the Nintendo Wii to become the best-selling home console ever in France, according to LeFigaro.
Lifetime sales for the Switch in France reached 7.09 million units at the end of 2022, surpassing the Wii earlier in the year, which sold 6.3 million units lifetime. The PS4 has an install base of six million in France.
"We sold 987,000 Switches in 2022, which is the best performance on the market. One out of two consoles sold in France last year was a Switch," said Nintendo France General Manager Philippe Lavoué.
Nintendo claims nearly 25 percent of French household have one or more Switch consoles. The new buyers are made of up half of families with children and half of young adults.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet was the best-selling Switch game in 2022 at retail with 701,000 units sold. Pokémon Legends Arceus was the second best-selling game with 575,000 units sold, followed by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 445,000 units, and Nintendo Switch Sports at 425,000 units.
"More than half of Switch owners have purchased Mario Kart 8 [Deluxe]," said Lavoué.
Lavoué added, "We are planning highlights around the release of Super Mario: The Movie, but everything is still confidential."
Here are the best-selling Switch games in France in 2022 at retail:
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet - 701,000
- Pokémon Legends Arceus - 575,000
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 445,000
- Nintendo Switch Sports - 425,000
- Mario Strikers: Battle League - 264,000
- Splatoon 3 - 254,000
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 253,000
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 214,000
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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Switch: today France, Tomorrow the world.
i just seen a new adjustment to switch 2022 worldwide numbers, like -150K, what had happened?
I'd suppose a good amount of the sales are Switch Lite, making this statement a bit of a grey area.
But that's of course still a ridiculous number, meaning that a Switch has been sold for every eight residents in France!
Globally, Switch Lite accounts for approximately 15% of Switch sales. So yes, it has yet to happen that the Wii gets surpassed as a home console, but it's only a matter of when, not if.
It’s a bit weird to say “Switch” and “home console” in the same sentence when the vast majority of it’s sales in the last few years have been the Switch Lite, a 100% system with no capabilities of a home console whatsoever.
That's complete nonsense. Lite is not the selling the most in any region.
Where did you get that nonsense from? The Lite sold way less than the hybrid model in every quarter after it's launch and last year the OLED model was the best selling model.
Don't say stuff like this if you haven't seen the numbers even a single time.
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