Switch Ships 132.46 Million Units as of September 2023 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 November 2023 / 6,334 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through September 30, 2023. Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 132.46 million units, while 1,133.23 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending September 30, 2023, Nintendo shipped 2.93 million Switch units and 44.88 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 132.46 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 51.03 million units in the Americas, 34.15 million in Europe, 31.77 million in Japan, and 15.51 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 90.83 million units of the 132.46 million Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch Lite accounts for 21.92 million units and the Switch OLED accounts for 19.71 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 six month period ending September 30, 2023 reported net sales were up 21.2 percent to ¥796.24 billion ($5.30 billion) and operating profit grew 27.0 percent to ¥279.91 billion ($1.86 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 57.01 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 43.38 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 32.44 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 31.15 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 26.95 million
- Pokémon Sword / Pokémon Shield – 26.02 million
- Pokémon Scarlet / Pokémon Violet – 23.23 million
- Super Mario Party – 19.66 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 19.50 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 16.70 million
Other Nintendo Switch first-party sales:
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 12.58 million
- Nintendo Switch Sports – 10.77 million
- Pikmin 4 - 2.61 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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Should have a pretty good Christmas quarter. Expect shipments to be around ~140 mill by the end of this year.
Nintendo is going all out this Christmas. They have announced three bundles, and unlike in past years, all three include their bundled game for free. Switch Lite will come with Animal Crossing: New Horizons (for $199), regular Switch will get Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ($299) and even Switch OLED will get Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for $349.
Pikmin 4 has outsold every other Pikmin title seperately, but did not beat combined number for Pimin 3 and Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I wonder how much double dipping is in the Deluxe numbers.
Keep it going .it can surpass PS2 as it hasn't had a price cut yet
7 years in and people still expect a price cut.
I am sure they would if it stars to go below 10 milliom units!. That would skyrocket the sales Especially if U bundle it with Mario kart and smash Brothers
Nintendo would rather sell less and make more profit. Sony was willing to slash PS2 hard towards the end. Plus, many bought it as a DVD player and didn't even bother playing games on it. Nowadays people stream. Anyone looking at this rationally would know the Switch has been a far more dominant device than the PS2 in terms of gaming market penetration.
Prediction: The Switch will sell 1mil in the Holiday season, fall off a cliff, and end with 124mil. PS4 will see a resurgence and surpass the Switch. (This is going to happen, trust me y'all.)
Are you okay hahaha..
are you asking me?? or are you just speculating about society and how they believe the Switch will not fall off a cliff?
Yes I am asking you. I detected some sarcasm there . Switch will fall off but not for a while now
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I think your just mad that the Switch is going to lose 10mil sales over the rest of its life cycle.🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Your figures are already wrong. How will it lose that much?
There was some dude on here that loved to predict that the Switch would sell well for a few months after it launched and then sales would fall off a cliff like the Wii U. He stuck to that story even after the Switch started setting sales records.
Is it the guy above U? Lol. My older brother said the same thing
They will for sure beat that forecast for March 2024. I think they will get close to that 140 million number at the end of this year.
Pikmin 4 did pretty great. It will be around 3.5-5 millions when all is said and done i feel.
Pokemon game sales are going down again. You can tell people were excited for Gen 8, were disappointed and even if Gen9 was promised to be building up on that, the games sold less.
As for ToTK, i feel like it kinda underperformed. The game is pretty more polarizing than anticipated at least to me. I don't think it will get close to the original. I would advise not doing something to similar to Botw/Totk for the next game cause it seems people got tired of it.
20 million in 5 months isn't underperforming unless you're using EA math. I don't expect it to surpass BotW, but it's still amazing.
Switch in few weeks best ever in Japan plus until end of the year surpass ps2 and became second best ever in Americas.DS still in first place.In the first half of 2024 surpass and DS
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