Switch Ships 141.32 Million Units as of March 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 May 2024 / 3,375 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through March 31, 2024. Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 141.32 million units, while 1,235.82 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending March 31, 2024, Nintendo shipped 1.96 million Switch units and 35.72 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 141.32 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 54.52 million units in the Americas, 36.49 million in Europe, 34.01 million in Japan, and 16.30 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 93.45 million units of the total Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch OLED accounts for 24.34 million units and the Switch Lite accounts for 23.54 million units.
Nintendo has set a forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 at 13.50 million. If Nintendo is able to hit its forecast it would bring lifetime Switch shipment figures to 154.82 million at the end of March 2025. This would put the Switch above the Nintendo DS, which sold 154.02 million units lifetime. It would also become the second best-selling video game platform of all time, only behind the PlayStation 2.
Nintendo for the 12 month period ending March 31, 2024 reported net sales were up 4,4 percent to ¥1,671.87 billion ($10.83 billion) and operating profit grew 4.9 percent to ¥680.50 billion ($4.41 billion).
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 61.97 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 45.36 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 34.22 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 31.85 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 27.96 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.27 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 24.92 million
- Super Mario Party – 20.66 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 20.61 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.45 million
Other Nintendo Switch first-party sales:
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 14.25 million
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 13.47 million
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 13.44 million
- Nintendo Switch Sports – 13.11 million
- Mario Party Superstars – 12.89 million
- Splatoon 3 – 11.96 million
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 7.52 million
- Pikmin 4 – 3.48 million
- Super Mario RPG – 3.31 million
- Princess Peach: Showtime! – 1.22 million (NEW)
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong – 1.12 million (NEW)
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 closing in on 8 million, what a success that game is for the franchise.
Pikmin 4 climbing its way up to 4mil is another big win! Any chance of 5mil? (Which would be kind of insane given that most of Nintendo's biggest sellers prior to this gen were selling around 4-9mil.)
I think we can all agree, 62M Mario kart is ridiculous
Especially when you consider it sold around 8 million on WiiU also...
Yea this 13.5 million means either they have some solid titles for the second half of the year or the Switch 2 isn't coming out in this FY. Or maybe both
Agreed. I think next month's Direct will help us understand that sales projection figure. Wouldn't surprise me if we got Metroid Prime 2 and 3 remasters to get us hyped for Prime 4 launching on Switch 2 . I think we'll get a Switch 2 reveal trailer in October, but no firm release date, followed by a preview event for press in January where they reveal a March release date as they'll want the sales to feed into their end of fiscal year report. That strategy will give Switch 1 a last Xmas push before its replaced, helping it achieve the projected sales. If Switch 1 hits 155 million by the end of the fiscal year then it'll have no problem surpassing Jim Ryan's alleged 160 Mill in sales for PS2 by 2026.
the difference between shipped and sold is very small.
Switch shipments for Jan to Mar 2024- 1.96 million
Vgchartz estimates for Switch sold through numbers Jan to Mar 2024- 2.78 million
There's still a difference of nearly 3m between shipped and sold so it doesn't seem unreasonable. It's relatively common for consoles to get overshipped in the holidays and therefore have low shipments in quarter 1.
I noticed that as well. But not much you can do when the overestimations were from the areas of the world that dont produce their numbers at all really. But yeah I was a bit disappointed. Oh well. 13.5M though is exciting.
Switch best ever console next 12 months with new 13.5M forecast this year.
That would actually be 2nd, it’s right there in the article
154.88 vs 155 you mean.Mmmm Switch already best ever console.
Forecast sees a small drop. This tells me they expect new hardware launch end of Fiscal Year (FY Q4 2025).
My guestimate is 8 million Switch & 5 million Switch2
The explanatory materials has the forecast for hardware as explicitly nintendo switch
I know. But who's to say they are not going to launch the new hardware as part of the Switch family of systems.
The 13.5m forecast is intriguing. Sure, they can have something big for the holidays season and/or price cuts (and there's Pokémon Z-A still coming in this fiscal year) but it could also mean that we will have a Game Boy Color situation, i.e. the Switch 2 will not be a successor but just a heavily upgraded Switch 1, i.e. a Switch Pro or Switch 1.5, still counting to the current Generation 1 of Switch systems.
Or it could mean exactly what they're saying: that the current model is forecasted to sell 13.5m this fiscal year.
I agree, it's the most likely scenario.
I agree with this. Nintendo is gonna push the OG and Lite to get them off the shelves in time for the successor, leaving just the OLED left. Since the Lite sold about the same amount as the OG this last FY there wouldnt be a reason to keep the Lite unless it was for super low entrances into gaming.
They are not shipping 13.5m units in the next FY.
They possibly are putting Switch 2 numbers with it.
Switch is currently tracking to do so. Plus, we really have no clue what Nintendo has planned for the remainder the coming fiscal year. Leads me to suspect that maybe they have something bigger than originally anticipated for this holiday season…
(or maybe a price cut👀)
"Consolidated Financial Forecast - Nintendo Switch - FY25 Forecast: 13.5m"
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507_3e.pdf
Whether or not Switch meets its 13.5m projection remains to be seen but there is no combining of hardware numbers for this forecast. This is Nintendo, not Sony. ;)
False. Youre mistaken. Theyre specifically talking about the Nintendo Switch 1:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507_3e.pdf
See page 8.
Nintendo's confidence in the Switch 1s ongoing performance suggests both that we're in for a treat with the June Direct and also that the Switch 2 unveiling might not happen till Jan 2025 as thats the most likely way to enable such a strong projection.
So lets look forward to next months Nintendo Direct as i suspect that high projection will begin to make sense after that point.
