Switch 2 Ships 19.86 Million Units as of March 2026, Switch 1 Ships 155.92 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 May 2026 / 9,316 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch 1 through March 31, 2026.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has shipped 19.86 million units to date, while 48.71 million Switch 2 games have been shipped lifetime.
Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch 1 reached 155.92 million units, while 1,528.14 million Switch 1 games have been shipped lifetime.
For the quarter ending March 31, 2026, Nintendo shipped 2.49 million Switch 2 units and 0.55 million Switch 1 units shipped.
Breaking down the 19.86 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 2, it has shipped 6.73 million units in the Americas, 4.40 million in Europe, 5.66 million in Japan, and 3.06 million in the rest of the world.
Breaking down the 155.92 million lifetime shipped figure for the Switch 1, it has shipped 59.61 million units in the Americas, 40.03 million in Europe, 38.34 million in Japan, and 17.94 million in the rest of the world.
The regular Nintendo Switch model accounts for 97.59 million units of the total Switch consoles shipped worldwide. The Switch OLED accounts for 31.91 million units and the Switch Lite accounts for 26.43 million units.
Nintendo's forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027 has the Nintendo Switch 2 at 16.50 million units shipped and the Nintendo Switch at 2.00 million. If Nintendo reaches the forecast exactly that would put Switch 2 lifetime sales at 36.36 million units and the Switch at 157.92 million units.
Nintendo also revealed Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has sold over 3.8 million units in its first two weeks.
Here are the best-selling Nintendo Switch 2 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart World – 14.70 million
- Donkey Kong Bananza - 4.52 million
- Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - 3.94 million
- Pokémon Pokopia - 2.41 million
- Kirby Air Riders - 1.87 million
Here are the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch 1 first-party titles:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 71.08 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 49.91 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 37.76 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 33.84 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 30.50 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 28.28 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 27.16 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 22.56 million
- Super Mario Party – 21.32 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 18.96 million
Other Nintendo Switch 1 first-party sales:
- Nintendo Switch Sports - 18.23 million
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder - 17.44 million
- Super Mario Party Jamboree - 9.96 million
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A - 8.85 million
- Super Mario Galaxy - 2.76 million
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 2.60 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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Switch has finally dethroned PS2 LT sales at 155M (we all know the 160M figure is pure BS).
I've been on this site since 2007 and the figure for PS2 has always been close to 155M until recently when Sony decided to announce 5M additional sales out of the blue. Curiously they announced these 5M sales just when they realized Switch was about to outsell PS2 LT figure, I mean come on!
It wasn't always close to 155m till recently. You can use the wayback machine on the internet archive and see for yourself that a few years ago it was at 158.7m. That was the minimum accepted amount while 161m was the accepted maximum it could've sold so 160m is right in the middle of that.
Production for the PS2 was stopped in 2013 and the 155 million figure was as of the year 2012. Where did 3 million, 5 million, or 6 million in additional sales comes from some 10 years after production stopped?
This Twitter post goes into it. https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1774120869096235518
Seriously, isn't that the answer right there?
That was a comprehensive read. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah the range of the PS2's final total was figured out a good while before the update a couple years ago. Won't stop some people from acting as if 155m is the final total when that isn't possible though.
People just need something better than "Jim Ryan said it". Where in this post does it show the PS3 declining in Sales YoY between FY2011 and FY2012 but the PS2 stayed the same in that time period? He gives links showing everything else except that.
That part is just saying that since Sony mentioned that the PS3 and PSP declined then that it's possible the PS2 didn't due to them not mentioning that. It's not concrete though though which is why the low end of the range was 158.6m and not 159.1m. The main point is the range was 158.6m-161.8m.
Right, I'm looking for a link to where Sony said this, as it is just as possible PS2 numbers went down as well. FY2011 numbers for Ps2/Ps3 show 18M and the sales numbers for Ps3 specifically are shown to be 13.9 which means PS2 sold 4.1M for FY2011. The claim is PS3 numbers went down for FY2012 but PS2 numbers stayed the same. I'm looking the evidence of that.
That is also just as possible yeah. Since it doesn't impact things much I won't look into that specific aspect but good luck finding it.
substantiating the sales for PS3 in FY2012 would be very important in determining just how much over 155 PS2 went in those last 9 months.
Ultimately, it really doesn't matter. Sony can have it. We're comparing a system going on its 10th year where the price went up $50 to $400 to a system which was being sold for $100 its last few years.
Donkey Kong Bananza deserves higher.
Donkey kong will continue to sale as more switch 2s are sold, generational legs
Legs are currently on par with Arms and Xeno2, far behind SMOdyssey and BotW. I’d imagine the game will end up hitting around where Forgotten Lands sits, but darn, what a shame if it can’t hit 10mil LTD.
DKB... as sold to nearly 25% of the install base
Pretty sure its sales are exactly what it deserves
MKW has only sold as well as it has due to the bundle lol
FYI
Pokémon Pokopia has actually sold about 4 million
The sales are split due to publishing deals for different regions
At this rate the Switch 1 will outsell the PS2 at some point after year 2037😂
It is probably going to take until 2028.
Break that down for me over the next 1.5 years.
I gotta see your math😂
Nearly 4 million for Living the Dream is even beyond my wildest predictions, but once again, 110% deserved.
So, both the PS5 and Switch 2 were fairly significantly over tracked this quarter on VGChartz?
The Switch 2 was over tracked. The PS5 was significantly over tracked.
If we look at the revised data, the Switch 2 led february, making it the best selling console every month since december.
The switch 2 is still overtraked by like 500k and maybe as much as 1m unless we believe the gap between shipped and sold is like 1m.
We know from PS5 sell through numbers what the modern supplly chain velocity is like and what the gap is for a fully available console with a high sell rate, and it's around 2m.
Switch1 soon to be the first platform to have two games sell 50 million copies.
Switch 2 software doing bad outside of MKW and the 3 just-released games (tomodachi and the two new pokemons). Even DKB which was the only big next gen game for S2 last year besides MKW has almost anemic sales already well less than a year after release, despite not much else worth playing on the S2 at this point. The trajectory of the Switch 2, especially with a price rise coming, is not looking good. Pokopia and Tomodachi being big successes are the current bright spots though.
Y'all just keep gaslighting yourselves into thinking the Switch 2 is doomed... how do you do it? That's impressive at this point.
I will give you that Pokopia was quite important to the Switch 2 after a few disappointing holliday titles, but the Switch 2 trajectory has been great and I don't think the price hike will matter as much since it is still quite cheaper than the PS5 in Europe and US.
Even then they're leaving out several games that, while 'controversial' for one reason or another, have found audiences. Not to mention, a lot more Day 1 Third party titles, with several of them selling better than on Series X. That basically never happened before this, not even on Switch 1.
Also the price increase wasn't nearly as bad as I and some others were afraid of. Hell, it's not going up at all in the UK (at least I didn't see anything in the report that indicated that) and only went up by 30 euros in the EU. It's not ideal, obviously, but it could've been a lot worse.
Same thing went down with Switch 1. BOTW was the only game people were buying. Then we got MK8D the following month then Mario Odyssey some months later and those games carried the system for the first year. MKW is tracking 5 million units better than MK8D first year. MKW and Pokemon ZA will have legs and you obviously see what Pokopia and Tomadachi are doing now. Nintendo still has plenty more rounds in the clip.
I didn't believe the Market would respond positively to the prices, but they have. The market has spoken. Switch 2 is a winner!
I half-agree. Obviously there are plenty of big first party guns they can and will unleash, but $500 is a significantly bigger hurdle for buyers than $300 was. I still can’t see it selling below 100M though.
The Switch 1 also probably only got 150M because of the pandemic, if we're being honest, that easily added another 30-ish million to its final total. NS2, or any post-pandemic console, physically can't match that, even the price notwithstanding. But yeah, my final prediction is somewhere between the Wii and PS4's final total.
Animal Crossing New Horizons was a smash hit. Take that away and Switch1 loses to mobile gaming the same as the PS5 and XBS.
Game pricing and market behavior has been interesting. DKB, Kirby Air riders, Metroid 4, and Age of Imprisonment may have been hurt by the $70 debut pricetag. Didn't bother Pokopia which sold 2.2 million in a few days at $70. Didn't hurt TOTK either which sold 10 million in 3 days a few years ago also at $70. MKW could be had for $50 if you got the bundle and Pokemon ZA which sold an impressive 12 million in a month and a half had the bulk of those sales on Switch 1 where is was $60. Nintendo may have been taking notes with pricing for Splatoon raiders and the Star Fox remake.
If you ask me, the variable pricing will hopefully be decisive. Raising the console price and bringing the average game price back down to Switch 1-era averages. A bigger one time investment is worth it, at least to me, if the games are more affordable.
Hopefully We'll see more of that type of pricing, though I doubt the next 3D Mario and mainline Zelda will be at that price. Maybe more Niche Games like Xenoblade and Fire emblem.
I wanted to get Age of Imprisonment, but I'm not paying $70 for it.
I wonder with Nintendo holding true to their "variable pricing" if they would go back and discount some of their previous games that didn't sell much. Even just a $10 discount can go a long way for their games such as Metroid Prime 4, Xenoblade X, Hyrule Warriors AoI, Mario Tennis Fever, etc.
I stand by all my shit talking on Pokémon ZA
PLA was a better game for its time
ZA is still underselling PLA despite having almost nearly 2x the install base
ZA was trash af
