Switch 2 Ships 10.36 Million Units as of September 2025, Switch 1 Ships 154.01 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 November 2025 / 6,297 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch 1 through September 30, 2025.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has shipped 10.36 million units to date, while 20.62 million Switch 2 games have been shipped lifetime.
Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch 1 reached 154.01 million units, while 1,452.79 million Switch 1 games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending September 30, 2025, Nintendo shipped 4.54 million Switch 2 units and 0.91 million Switch 1 units shipped.
Breaking down the 10.36 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 2, it has shipped 3.68 million units in the Americas, 2.40 million in Europe, 2.35 million in Japan, and 1.93 million in the rest of the world.
Breaking down the 154.01 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 1, it has shipped 58.98 million units in the Americas, 39.56 million in Europe, 37.77 million in Japan, and 17.70 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo Switch model accounts for 96.99 million units of the total Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch OLED accounts for 31.10 million units and the Switch Lite accounts for 25.92 million units.
Nintendo's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 has been revised. Nintendo now expects to ship 19 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, which is up from 15 million units. The forecast for the Nintendo Switch 1 has decreased from 4.5 million to 4 million units. Switch 1 will reach 156.12 million units shipped by March 2026 if it hits the new forecast.
Here are the best-selling Nintendo Switch 2 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart World – 9.57 million
- Donkey Kong Bananza - 3.49 million
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch 1 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 69.56 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 48.62 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 36.93 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 33.34 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 29.84 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 27.61 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.96 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 22.15 million
- Super Mario Party – 21.23 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 18.53 million
Other Nintendo first-party sales:
- Super Mario Party Jamboree – 8.64 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 follow the author on Bluesky.
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Lol yet some on here remain convinced that sales are cratering to a halt. Over ten million in 4m is unprecedented pace! And nearly 3.5mil for DKBananza is a very powerful start especially for not being pack-in!! Curious how this would place Bananza against BotW launch aligned?
Also, NS1 is 0.01mil short of Nintendo DS LTD…they really should’ve just shipped out the 10k and called it. But I guess we’ll just need to wait another 3m before it’s technically official.
Just like toxic fandom (the kind that is mostly interested in negative opinions and back-patting other negative opinions) is more about attention than anything else. They’re social media addicts who found the cheapest and easiest way to get attention to stroke their addiction.
It used to be called trolling.
Bonanza sold 0n 1 of every 3 systems sold. i wonder if it can keep this pace with system sales
Press (F) to doubt
Hopefully yes.
Nice sales, Nintendo!
@VGChartz Team:
Congrats to being highly likely insanely accurate with your Switch 2 sell-through estimates as of September 30th, 2025.
Switch 2 reaching 20M with the holidays!
For everyone wondering on the Switch vs DS race: for Nintendo's own, official sales records, they have Switch at 154.01 million and Nintendo DS at 154.02 million.
That means that in all likelihood, Switch has already surpassed DS lifetime sales, or will very very soon. It's hard to say if Nintendo will do a big announcement about that at the time it happens, or wait until their next financial quarterly update in Feb 2026 (for Oct-Dec sales). Either way I do expect it to be a big deal for them, as Switch will become their best selling hardware of all time, handheld or console or hybrid or otherwise lol
Switch 1 is a lock for best selling system of all time now, right?
The forecast was reduced from 4.5m to 4m so it's actually almost a lock for not getting there at this point.
Switch still has some distance to go before the end.
That is crazy for Donkey Kong. It could end up being the franchise’s best selling of all time.
It’ll be interesting to see where everything falls after this holiday quarter. Switch 2 should easily eclipse 20 million during its first year. We finally might have a console that can stay ahead of the Wii and DS.
So much for all the FUD about how Switch 2 was "losing steam"
2 successful console in a row
Hope Nintendo doesn't make switch 2 lite as that was a terrible mistake, it bad as xblock series s, causes confusion and gives developers headaches
The Cliff® is still coming. Any day now.
And the Steam Deck will still completely take k over the handheld market, according to Gaben worshippers.
You mean that they are people out there buying what they enjoy playing with their own hard earned money and not listening to people on the internet. I would have never imaged suck a thing could occur.
Some (Nintendo) ultra fanboy logic I've just learned on Reddit today:
»There's NO way PS5 could have outsold Switch 2 in September 2025 globally. Because Switch 2 shipped 10.3m units in 4 months. Which is ~2.5m in average per month, you see?«
Man. It's so tiring talking with them.
DK has sold really well... But I'm surprised it wasn't higher
What else was there to play the last 4 months?
Congrats to Nintendo!
Although I don't really dig their new policies for prices and physical games, it's good to see they're healthy and a continuing to be a cornerstone of the home console market.
It remains thrilling to watch if the Switch will overtake PS2, although I might think now that PS2 will have a very slight upper hand in the end - even with their 158m figure before it was 160m.
Solid 2nd quarter for Switch 2 and really great start for DK. Honestly i hope MP4 can get has much of a push. I really need it to sell 5+ millions.
Donkey Kong Bananza did better than I hoped!! ^^
amazing the top 10 sales numbers
