Switch Ships 129.53 Million Units as of June 2023 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 August 2023 / 9,186 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through June 30, 2023. Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 129.53 million units, while 1,088.35 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending June 30, 2023, Nintendo shipped 3.91 million Switch units and 52.2 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 129.53 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 50.18 million units in the Americas, 33.53 million in Europe, 30.79 million in Japan, and 15.02 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 90.23 million units of the 129.53 million Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch Lite accounts for 21.45 million units and the Switch OLED accounts for 17.85 million units.
Nintendo's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 remains at 15.00 million. If Nintendo is able to hit its forecast it would bring lifetime Switch shipment figures to 140.62 million at the end of March 2024. This would be 13.4 million behind lifetime sales of the Nintendo DS.
Nintendo for the 12 month period ending March 31, 2023 reported net sales were up 50 percent to ¥461.34 billion ($3.21 billion) and operating profit grew 82.4 percent to ¥185.44 billion ($1.29 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 55.46 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 42.79 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 31.77 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 30.65 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 26.44 million
- Pokémon Sword / Pokémon Shield – 25.92 million
- Pokémon Scarlet / Pokémon Violet – 22.66 million
- Super Mario Party – 19.39 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 18.51 million (NEW)
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 16.17 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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Following this earnings report I've gone and adjusted Switch sales down by about ~120K.
Edit: We adjusted Switch more and the gap between shipped and sold is now at 1.83M.
After some discussion I think Will is going to make some further adjustments today so that the gap's a little bigger.
But on the PS5 v NS point: we don't know the gap for PS5 yet this quarter, but yes it was higher last quarter, and it almost certainly will be this quarter too. PS5 is outshipping NS quite considerably YTD (so there's a lot more stock in transit), it's not really supply constrained anymore (minus a few exceptional situations), and meanwhile NS outperformed in terms of expected sell-through this quarter, so a gap difference does make sense.
What a monster opening for TotK
Breath of the Wild continues to close the gap on Smash Bros, 1.12 million now (from 1.27 in March). Maybe it’ll close the distance by Q4.
Zelda is in god mode. I expected 15 million by now, but 18 million? Jesus.
The Switch itself has had one hell of a run. My favorite game system of all time.
Never thought we would see a LoZ game sell 20+ million copies, but here it is about to do it in within a single generation. BotW/TotK show what a single player game can be, will anyone be able to touch it? What is the sales potential for TotK?
Assuming no successor is announced prior to Holiday 2023, the Switch will most certainly crush through the 15mil projection. I see ~18mil, leaving only 10mil l left for the Switch to surpass DS…which the Switch can certainly pull off (2.5mil/1mil/4mil/0.5mil => 8mil fiscal ‘24).
50M in Americas means in a few months became second best ever instead of ps2.DS first place.31M in JP.Means first ever console in a few months
Still posting this made up stat eh
Please post the PS2 sales for Americas then.
lol, I thought he was saying the truth
The switch is at 50.18 PS2 is at 53.65 Mars expects the switch surpass that "in a few months". It all depends on his definition of "a few months." Is it 3 or is it 6 or a different number?
53.65m is just NA, not Including south America. The gap in NA is about 8m and there's no reason to assume it's less when you account for South America as the PS2 still has significantly higher "rest of world" sales. This was already explained to him.
He's not going to hear us from Mars
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