Switch Ships 150.86 Million Units as of December 2024 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2025 / 19,315 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch through December 31, 2024. Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 150.86 million units, while 1,359.80 million Switch games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending December 31, 2024, Nintendo shipped 4.82 million Switch units and 53.70 million Switch games.
Breaking down the 150.86 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch, it has shipped 57.83 million units in the Americas, 39.00 million in Europe, 36.82 million in Japan, and 17.22 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo switch model accounts for 96.18 million units of the total Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch OLED accounts for 29.41 million units and the Switch Lite accounts for 25.27 million units.
Nintendo's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 has been lowered by 1.5 million units to 11.00 million units. If Nintendo is able to hit its forecast that would mean another 1.46 million Switch units shipped for the rest of the fiscal year for a lifetime shipment total of 152.32 million units.
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 67.35 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 47.44 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 35.88 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 32.62 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 29.04 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.60 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 26.38 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 21.55 million
- Super Mario Party – 21.10 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 18.06 million
Other Nintendo Switch first-party sales:
- Nintendo Switch Sports – 15.74 million
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 15.51 million
- Super Mario Party Jamboree – 6.17 million (New)
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – 3.91 million
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024) – 2.06 million
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership – 1.84 million (New)
- Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD – 1.80 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 Bluesky.
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I was hoping for 151 mill or just over, but this is still good. Switch 100% wont beat DS in quarter 4 (ending 31st March 2025) as they'd need 3.18 million to do so and will instead achieve this feat quarter 1 that ends 30th June 2025. If they keep supporting Switch 1 for the rest of 2025 at least, i expect it to have outsold PS2 by summer 2026.
Agreed. Nintendo is doing the right thing by maintaining backwards-compatibility with Switch 2. That makes consumers feel comfortable buying a current Switch still and current Switch games, knowing all those $60 games they might purchase can still be played and enjoyed once they upgrade to Switch 2 in the future. Switch Lite especially becomes a very viable low-cost entry point, as one would assume there won't be a Switch 2 Lite for at least a few years (if one comes at all).
I am still hoping that Switch 2 launches at $349, or really surprises everyone at $299, and then Switch OLED becomes discontinued and Switch base drops to $249 while supplies last.
Within striking distance of the DVD player...
Drop all NS1 models by $100, add a few special editions and bundles and you'll get there lol
$50.00 discount and a mario kart/odyssey bundle
look at those first party sales numbers!
Less than 10 million away from PlayStation 2!
Amazing numbers! Just as expected: Switch cleared 150 million and its even close to 151!😎
I was eager to see more info on Super Mario Bros. Wonder numbers. Didn't we have more info about it?
I missed it in my first go through of Nintendo's reports. Super Mario Bros. Wonder is at 15.51M.
Oh, I see it now. Thanks! I really want it to pass NSMBU numbers. I also hope Super Mario Odyssey reaches 30 million units sold in the future
Super Mario Odeyssey will be at 30 million LTD minimum when all is said and done.
I also want SMBW to surpass NSMBU. I was originally hoping for 20M
If it doesn't pass NSMBU, maybe we may end with more mario games, like they would plan for 4 sub series, the main 3D, the new, the wonder and the "3d land/world" one. Might please everyone.
I don't see another New game. I mean I sure hope not. That series was tired and stale and NSMBUD is pretty mediocre. Only reason it sold so much is it was the only 2D Mario on the system for a bunch of years. If you switched the release dates of Wonder and New, Wonder would be up over 25m and New would be well under 10m.
All we need is 3D and 2D, and no series. Occasionally it's fine to do a single sequel (like Galaxy 2), an in fact I'd love to see a 3D World 2 at some point, but in general they should create a whole new 3D and 2D game each gen, as they normally do except when they got bogged down with the New series which got boring.
I genuinely enjoyed the New series. The power-ups were a great addition, though I wished they put as much love into the WiiU and Switch versions as they did with the DS and Wii versions. The New series is over.
If they do another series it’ll involve the Wonder seeds, like how we see them in the Mario Kart/Switch 2 teaser. Personally, I’d love to have a Mario game going through the past 2D games but now there are Wonder seeds near the beginning of each level.
If I'm not mistaken, the Switch sold 1.96M or something like that from January to March last year, so 1.46 million wouldn't be as much of a drop
1.46M units shipped per quarter would meet my expectations. We should reach about 6 millions by the end of this calendar year, which would be about half as last year. Sales should drop a bit as soon as Switch 2 has launched though, but there should be a small boost during the holidays to balance it. And there's still a possibility that Nintendo lowers the price of Switch to offer a budget alternative to Switch 2.
will pokemon scarlet/violet beat pokemon sword/shield, it may be possible until gen 10 takes all sales of mainline pokemon games. Were pokemon of gen 4 and 5 still selling while gen 6 and 7 were there (aka diamond (dpp), white (b and w), x (y) and sun (moon) ) ? Because that case will happen since switch games are compatible with 2. Although, gen 4 and 5 (and even more, 1 and 2) didn't have digital sales to rely on.
But i expect physical switch games to quickly stop being produced when 2 arrives (exception might be mk8 of course), since the ps4 physical games have been overthrown by ps5 games although ps5 can play both.
So we know that the switch won't pass the ds before march.
I think that what will really end the switch's sales will be 2's lite version. Wouldn't harm sales to have both switch 1 and 2 for christmas 2025.
I think Scarlet and Violet will surpass Sword and Shield.
I don’t think Gen 4 & 5 were selling during Gen 6 & 7. I think that Gen 5 was selling during Gen 6.
The Pokémon Company generally releases a game every year (or a DLC), 2024 was a gap year.
Yes, i've done the math. scarlet/violet should be close to 26,7 in march while sword/shield should be around 26,75, so it's happening somewhere before June.
Well, the cycle might end as games take longer to produce for next gen, plus we won't know anything about legend ZA before pokemon day when we'll get everything... So i expect a november release for ZA and we'll get gen 10 for the 30th anniversary.
If they want to make a plus tier for switch online for gen 1 to 3, i'm in.
Took them like 20 years to outsell gen 2. Might take far longer to take the crown from first gen.
Yeah, i also saw that. It'll be the first time that a second gen on a console will beat the first one. And it's only the second time that digital sales can help the sales go up after initial release, the first time was during 3ds era and sun and moon missed x and y sales number by 0.4 million only. Then again, the 3ds era was different as the account was linked to the console (And sun and moon sales got to 0 thanks to ultra versions)
Scarlet and violet also got more time than any other generation (since Legends ZA will be released in 2025 and i don't see it released in march and gen 10 in November, i expect gen 10 to launch in late 2026)
I expect everything to be said on pokemon day about ZA with a little one more thing just announcing gen 10... Or even a february 2026 release of pokemon red and blue fourth edition remake (but i suppose we won't get that) to celebrate the 30 th anniversary.
mmm... First fo all, I've never believed the 160 million Sony now says PS2 sold, and I do not believe those numbers (don't care about any stupid plaques Sony do now, to "assure" those are "the real" numbers, 12 years after stop producing it, with 150 million as the official number by then).
But I do not see the way for Switch to sell 10 more million if at least do not have 3 more years of production and full support in games (including 2025), or has a huge cut price of some sort to boost its sells as a cheap alternative to Switch 2. I expected a half of a million more by december, but ok. By now, probably they surpassed the 151 million anyways.
I mean... I don't think they lied
But its really really weird they waited like 15 years to give an update to the numbers... which just so happened to be when a "competitor" was creeping up on them lol
Changing an already confirmed number is... hm lets call it trying to rewrite history, erasing facts.
Absolutely. If somebody thinks Sony had those 10 million PS2 in its warehouses, waiting to be shipped around the world, the next 12 years after the end of the production... is just an idiot.
With a higly successful console as PS2... I could accept 2 (or maybe 3?) more million consoles distributed and sold AFTER the ending of its manufacturing.... AT MAX. More than that? you just simply continue to produce the machine: Why are you stopping? you expect to sell 10 more fucking million... and stop? Why?
Those last machines produced had to be distributed the next months.... or Sony simply had to destroy them: Their warehouses cannot be literally full of non-selling old crap during years and years, because they need the space for the new consoles.
So... IN NO WAY the final number have a 10 million difference from the number they gave as official in 2012, when they discontinued PS2. Absolute nonsense.
Plus, people wanting a PS2 in 2012 and following years? man... you could grab a used one for nice prices everywhere, including ebay. Because, precisely, PS2 sold a lot. They are still cheap today.
I do. I do think they lied. They use slogans like "the best-selling console" with PS2, so, for them is very important to mantain that idea, even if they have to lie.
