Switch 2 Ships 17.37 Million Units as of December 2025, Switch 1 Ships 155.37 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 February 2026 / 6,027 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch 1 through December 31, 2025.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has shipped 17.37 million units to date, while 37.93 million Switch 2 games have been shipped lifetime.
Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch 1 reached 155.37 million units, while 1,500.16 million Switch 1 games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending December 31, 2025, Nintendo shipped 7.01 million Switch 2 units and 1.36 million Switch 1 units shipped.
Breaking down the 17.37 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 2, it has shipped 5.98 million units in the Americas, 4.10 million in Europe, 4.78 million in Japan, and 2.50 million in the rest of the world.
Breaking down the 155.37 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 1, it has shipped 59.45 million units in the Americas, 39.91 million in Europe, 38.14 million in Japan, and 17.87 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo Switch model accounts for 97.42 million units of the total Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch OLED accounts for 31.68 million units and the Switch Lite accounts for 26.27 million units.
Nintendo's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 has remained the same. Nintendo has forecasted it will ship 19 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles and 4 million Nintendo Switch 1 consoles. Switch 1 will reach 156.12 million units shipped by March 2026 if it hits the new forecast.
Nintendo did announce cumulative worldwide sell-through figures for the Nintendo Switch 2 surpassed 15 million units in the fourth week of December 2025 (week of Christmas), according to "internal estimates of unit sales to individual consumers."
Here are the best-selling Nintendo Switch 2 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart World – 14.03 million
- Donkey Kong Bananza - 4.25 million
- Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 3.89 million
- Kirby Air Riders - 1.76 million
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch 1 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 70.59 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 49.32 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 37.44 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 33.64 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 30.27 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 28.08 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 27.08 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 22.40 million
- Super Mario Party – 21.28 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 18.80 million
Other Nintendo Switch 1 first-party sales:
- Nintendo Switch Sports - 17.84 million
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder - 17.15 million
- Super Mario Party Jamboree - 9.41 million
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A - 8.41 million
- Super Mario Galaxy - 2.28 million
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 2.24 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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So by the spring, Switch 1 should need to ship less than 4 million more units to pass the PS2. Still seems doable to me.
At this pace and if we consider a further 50% decline each year, Switch 1 will hit 158k in 2027, 159k in 2028 and probably 160k until end of life.
Unless they actually dropped $100 off each model... But that seems unlikely at this point lol
It will depend how strong sales stay in Japan and if the price gap between it and other consoles grows.
Switch soon will be number 2 all time and looking like the PS2 will remain King!
As per Nintendo themselves,
Switch 2 has sold through (not shipped) 15 million units as of 4th week of December.
Our estimates have it topping 15 million units in the 4th week of December, which should be the week of Christmas. Nintendo's earnings report is through December 31, 2025, while our estimates are through January 3, 2026. We have it topping 16 million January 2 or 3.
But there might still be some tweaks to make.
Stocks sold off by about 6-7% after the report released. I wonder what it was that the investors didn't like.
Edit: It was down to revenue missing target by 25 billion yen, and also to poor profit margins because of poor software sales. Hardware sales were fine though
Gaming as a whole took a dip as investors reallocated gaming funds over to AI
Well. that's just happening in general. It wouldn't make a stock drop 7% after an earnings release. You could argue that the component cost increase because of the AI bubble is part of what caused it however
No, stock at Tokyo Stock Exchange is up by 1.83% on Feb 3 end of day.
well in the Nasdaq it's down 6.41% as of now.
Again Downplaying Nintendo. How about answering my question before because you never answered: Can any Sony PS5 1st party game Outsell Super Mario Kart World? Wanna bet? Those are net profits that Sony can only salivate. Facts.
All I was doing was posting the actual FACTS. what you do is state an opinion and call it a fact.
Investors know that regardless of figures, ram costs mean the Switch 2 will go up in price and they are nervous how that plays out.
So, you telling me that Metroid prime 4, "VG Chartz Most Anticipated Game of 2025" ( ahead of GTA VI ), failed top sell +1.76M copies!?
/S-hock face!!
7 months, 17.37 million units. I think there is a very high chance it will pass 20 million within its first year.
DKB was pretty good, glad to see it has sold well
Hope we actually get a sequel during the NS2 generation
Amazing numbers, they are meeting demand. Something completely missing at the start of PS5/XSX times. What was PS5? Like 10?
