Switch Ships 122.55 Million Units as of December 2022 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 February 2023 / 5,079 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through December 31, 2022. Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 122.55 million units, while 994.30 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending December 31, 2022, Nintendo shipped 8.22 million Switch units and 76.71 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 122.55 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 47.66 million units in the Americas, 31.71 million in Europe, 29.05 million in Japan, and 14.15 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 88.67 million units of the 122.55 million Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch Lite accounts for 20.40 million units and the Switch OLED accounts for 13.49 million units.
Nintendo has lowered its forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, from 19 million units for the Nintendo Switch down to 18 million.
Nintendo for the nine month period ending December 31, 2022 reported net sales were down 1.9 percent to ¥1,295.18 billion ($9.80 billion) and an operating profit dropped 13.1 percent to ¥410.54 billion ($3.11 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 52 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 41.59 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 30.44 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 29 million
- Pokémon Sword / Pokémon Shield – 25.68 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 25.12 million
- Pokémon Scarlet / Pokémon Violet – 20.61 million
- Super Mario Party – 18.79 million
- Ring Fit Adventure – 15.22 million
- Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – 15.07 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 14.75 million
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus – 14.63 million
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 12.44 million
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 10.82 million
- Splatoon 3 – 10.13 million
- Mario Party Superstars – 9.38 million
- Nintendo Switch Sports – 8.61 million
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 6.12 million
- Mario Strikers: Battle League – 2.47 million
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 1.81 million
- Bayonetta 3 – 1.04 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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I am looking at the breakdown of shipment figures and the VGChartz estimates look good in the Americas, Europe, and Japan. However, we are a bit too high in the others area (Asia, MEA, Oceania). These regions are the hardest to track as there is very little data available. I will be adjusting those down a little bit.
But its more than 2 000 000 missing not overpredicted... You need to adjust Switch numbers up.
Nintendo's figures are shipped, while our estimates are sell-through. Unless a console has been discontinued there is a gap between shipped vs sold.
Mario Kart is the best local multiplayer franchise in history, and I don’t think anything comes close.
Top 5 Nintendo series with the biggest increases in the latest financial data:
1st - Pokemon +21.90 million
2nd - Mario Kart +3.59 million
3rd - Super Mario +3.55 million
4th - Nintendo/Wii Sports +2.46 million
5th - Splatoon +2.23 million
But pokemon s/v has 20mln sold copies.👀
Oh yes you're right, sorry! I was only taking into account the increase on the initial announcement for S/V. Corrected.
Botw will surpass Smash and Odyssey will surpass Pokemon Sw/Sh. Botw will probably get a boost this year too with the release of the sequel !
