Switch worldwide sales top 139.36 million, Super Mario Bros. Wonder tops 11.96 million

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Switch worldwide sales top 139.36 million, Super Mario Bros. Wonder tops 11.96 million

Nintendo Switch has sold 139.36 million units worldwide as of December 31, 2023, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.
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Nintendo Switch has sold 139.36 million units worldwide as of December 31, 2023, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.

A total of 6.9 million Switch hardware and 66.87 million software were sold during the three months ended December 31, 2023.

Nintendo also shared updated sales numbers for its first-party Switch titles.

The 10 best-selling first-party Switch titles are:
  1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 60.58 million
  2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 44.79 million
  3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 33.67 million
  4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 31.61 million
  5. Super Mario Odyssey – 27.65 million
  6. Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.17 million
  7. Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 24.36 million
  8. Super Mario Party – 20.34 million
  9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 20.28 million
  10. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.20 million
Nintendo also announced the following additional sales numbers:

More than 1,200.10 million Switch games have been sold worldwide.
 
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Kreese said:
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Switch worldwide sales top 139.36 million, Super Mario Bros. Wonder tops 11.96 million

Nintendo Switch has sold 139.36 million units worldwide as of December 31, 2023, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.
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Nintendo Switch has sold 139.36 million units worldwide as of December 31, 2023, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.

A total of 6.9 million Switch hardware and 66.87 million software were sold during the three months ended December 31, 2023.

Nintendo also shared updated sales numbers for its first-party Switch titles.

The 10 best-selling first-party Switch titles are:
  1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 60.58 million
  2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 44.79 million
  3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 33.67 million
  4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 31.61 million
  5. Super Mario Odyssey – 27.65 million
  6. Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.17 million
  7. Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 24.36 million
  8. Super Mario Party – 20.34 million
  9. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 20.28 million
  10. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.20 million
Nintendo also announced the following additional sales numbers:

More than 1,200.10 million Switch games have been sold worldwide.
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Those are definitely not rookie numbers...
 
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Stilton Disco said:
Definitely slowing down and in need of a current gen replacement, but damn are those big numbers. Beating the DS and PS2 is a real possibility.
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I wonder if they are holding out for that? Because let's face it no one else is ever going to top it if they take it .
 
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It's an interesting formula:

Compelling hardware sold at a mass market price point

Exclusive games you can't play anywhere else (legally) from both third parties and established IP.

Hundreds of millions of systems sold and games that sell 50-60 million copies.

This model works; it has for decades. It worked for Sony too, until they decided to go stupid and start literally pricing themselves out of the reach of mass market and casual buyers.
 
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Amorous Biscuit said:
Luigi's Mansion at near enough 14m units sold is kind of staggering to me.

I think Nintendo really might surpass the PS2...
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It's a good game and all but yeah those numbers are very good.

Obviously there is a huge market for handheld gaming based on the historic numbers and I think that step up from 3DS made all the difference.

Games like Luigis Mansion aren't ruined by woke crap or stupid "games as a service" nonsense.

The sales numbers for Switch Sports say a lot too. The game is kind of awful and low effort but you've got literally millions of families having a blast with games like that.

On the main home consoles and on PC to some extent I think there is a much stronger focus on games for adults. Guns, violence, etc.

Personally I thought Switch was going to flop so now hopefully they can have a lot of success with the next iteration.
 
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Miyazaki Loves Kojima said:
This is what PlayStation could achieve if it wasn't "PC Greedy".
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I think it's a very interesting "what if" to think about. I wonder though, is NIntendo more profitable than Sony in the gaming sector? Nintendo makes a killing for sure, but they take in less money from 3rd party sales and the online platform.

Sony could potentially be selling fewer units than Nintendo while simultaneously making more money.
 
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This is what PlayStation could achieve if it wasn't "PC Greedy".
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Some of the Exclusives or potential exclusives that Sony has let leave its flagship Platform:

13 Sentinel Aegis Rim (On Switch, very good but very niche title could use the attention)
Chrono Cross Remaster
Days Gone
Final Fantasy Pixel I-VI Remaster (Overlap with prior SNES release makes this one iffy)
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII: Intergrade
Final Fantasy VII: Crises Core Reunion
Final Fantasy VIII Remaster
Final Fantasy IX (Moguri Mod however would not have been as likely without PC modding scene.)
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
God of War
Grim Grimoire: Once More (On Switch, very good but very niche title could use the attention)
Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Judgment
Lost Judgment
Last of Us Remaster
Last of Us Part 1
Last of Us Part 2
Nier: Replicant
Nier: Automata
Persona 3: Portable
Persona 3: Remake
Persona 4: Golden
Persona 5: Royal
Persona 5: Strikers
Returnal
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Uncharted 4: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Until Dawn Remake
Unicorn Overlord
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kawami
Yakuza 3-5 Remaster
Yakuza 6: Song of Hope
Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man who Erased his Name
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

If the PS4/PS5 was what you needed to play these exclusive titles how many more PS4/PS5s would have been sold?
 
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Zeta Dragoon said:
Some of the Exclusives that Sony has let leave its flagship Platform:

13 Sentinel Aegis Rim (On Switch, very good but very niche title could use the attention)
Chrono Cross Remaster
Days Gone
Final Fantasy Pixel I-VI Remaster (Overlap with prior SNES release makes this one iffy)
Final Fantasy VII: Intergrade
Final Fantasy VII: Crises Core Reunion
God of War
Grim Grimoire: Once More (On Switch, very good but very niche title could use the attention)
Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Judgment
Lost Judgment
Last of Us Remaster
Last of Us Part 1
Last of Us Part 2
Persona 3: Portable
Persona 3: Remake
Persona 4: Golden
Persona 5: Royal
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Uncharted 4: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Until Dawn Remake
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kawami
Yakuza 3-5 Remaster
Yakuza 6: Song of Hope
Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man who Erased his Name
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

If the PS4/PS5 was what you needed to play these exclusive titles how many more PS4/PS5s would have been sold?
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Don't think there was any immediate effect on sales. With the first party exclusives, the vast majority of the sales already happened before they released on PC. And we didn't see console sales decline in any way after PC ports have been established.
 
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regawdless said:
Don't think there was any immediate effect on sales. With the first party exclusives, the vast majority of the sales already happened before they released on PC. And we didn't see console sales decline in any way after PC ports have been established.
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I do like the wider attention it brings to games that could use it, especially any Vanilaware title and the upcoming Until Dawn Remake.
 
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Don't think there was any immediate effect on sales. With the first party exclusives, the vast majority of the sales already happened before they released on PC. And we didn't see console sales decline in any way after PC ports have been established.
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We have however seen Xbox sales crater while PS5 has remained mostly in line with PS4.

There's several million customers who wanted a traditional home console experience from last gen who are missing from current gen, basically.

As time goes on, there's most likely going to be a softening of PS5 sales as, like what happened to XO/XSS/X, the general public come to associate PlayStation games with PC rather than exclusivity to Sony hardware.

There's always a lag in how a brand is perceived and what those effects are, especially when talking about an expensive product most will buy once or twice a decade, and where information on the broader industry trends will take a while to filter through into the broader casual audience's mindshare.

As I've said before, I expect the later years of 9th gen to see PS5 fall significantly short of PS4's sales, with PS6 stumbling right out the gate, if they continue to give customers reasons not to buy their products.
 
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I'm really curious how Nintendo will follow up the Switch. After the WiiU, there was a serious appetite for a great Nintendo console, and Nintendo delivered.

Part of me worries that there isn't as much demand for one now as there was back then. Sure, many core gamers want one, but I have a suspicion that it will be hard for Nintendo to move casual players off the Switch to a newer device.
 
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Zeta Dragoon said:
I do like the wider attention it brings to games that could use it, especially any Vanilaware title and the upcoming Until Dawn Remake.
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We also have to include the effect that PC port had on the PS5 game sales. With all the articles, YouTube videos, PC gamers getting excited, marketing and word of mouth, the PS5 games started selling again and often charted again when the PC version released. Meaning the PC ports actually helped selling more PS5 copies.
 
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McHuj said:
I'm really curious how Nintendo will follow up the Switch. After the WiiU, there was a serious appetite for a great Nintendo console, and Nintendo delivered.

Part of me worries that there isn't as much demand for one now as there was back then. Sure, many core gamers want one, but I have a suspicion that it will be hard for Nintendo to move casual players off the Switch to a newer device.
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The key to Nintendo's success is to deliver a desirable piece of hardware at a reasonable cost paired with evergreen titles everyone will want such as Mario Kart and Animal Crossing. As long as they deliver the hardware at a compelling price paired with the software they will sell extremely well. It's really not about the gimmicks.
 
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Zefah said:
It's always shocking to me to see how low the SNES numbers are. At the time, it felt just as prevalent as the NES before it and PS1 after it.
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In Great Britain everyone I knew had a Megadrive or PC apart from one girl. Like the NES before it, it was mostly just Japan and America where Nintendo ruled near unopposed.
 
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It's always shocking to me to see how low the SNES numbers are. At the time, it felt just as prevalent as the NES before it and PS1 after it.
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They're still impressive. The market was divided with the Genesis, and it had more gamers, whereas the market was almost totally dominated by Nintendo with the NES. Also, the pool of gamers grew a fuckton by the time the PS1 hit the shelves. Take all of this into consideration and adjust the info accordingly.
 
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Well deserved, absolutely phenomenal game.
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Next level games have proven to be one of Nintendo's heavy hitters, esp. on the technology side of things and Luigi 3 was much much better than 2. Really I think they have the BEST engine tech among Nintendo studios, sans Retro maybe.

Whether they do another Luigi game or something else, it's one of the top 5 next Nintendo games I look forward to.
 
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cryptoadam said:
AC and MK 100 million + units dear god. The thirst is real.
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I sometimes am tempted to buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons but it's too addicting. I didn't play it at all but during the pandemic I could see how it would be slightly therapeutic to have a game like that to fall back on for an hour here and hour there

MK8 DLX is a love hate relationship. I can't deny it's greatness in the mechanics and high intensity racing. But those Mario Kart Tour tracks are pure mediocre filler. Fucking hate those racetracks so bad man, they are not good in any way
 
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cryptoadam said:
AC and MK 100 million + units dear god. The thirst is real.
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I was reading through the OP again and thought where the hell are the assassins creed and mortal kombat numbers and why are the mentioned in a Nintendo numbers thread until I realized it's animal crossing and Mario kart 😐


switch is killing it. The gap between Wii and switch is impressive. I thought they're much closer.

When you look at the first four Nintendo console generations it seems like a massive downward spiral from nes to GameCube numbers. But back then it felt like snes was dominating everything. And still the numbers are 20million less than OG nes.
 
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lock2k said:
This whole "exclusivity has no place in gaming" bullshit talk is some heavy copium shit. God damn
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People want to have their cake and eat it too.

They're often the same people whining about the endless remakes and how low quality, painfully safe and politically correct the games PlayStation and Xbox put out have started to become too, since going multiplat, without ever putting two and two together.
 
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Franky Family said:
I sometimes am tempted to buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons but it's too addicting. I didn't play it at all but during the pandemic I could see how it would be slightly therapeutic to have a game like that to fall back on for an hour here and hour there
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I booted up my Switch for the first time in a long time to see how bad AC:NH had me during lockdown and you're right. 455 hours played.

Stay away from it. It's a filthy, bad, no good habit.
 
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lock2k said:
This whole "exclusivity has no place in gaming" bullshit talk is some heavy copium shit. God damn
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Hey, if someone is a strong Xbox fan, their whole world is unraveling with these rumors. Think about the decades spent believing that "next E3 is ours."

How many times did they lap up The Message from Phil Spencer about how they're going to have the best software lineup they've ever had? How many list war battles have they engaged in with game titles that had nothing but a CG reveal trailer for 5 years before launching to a 6/10 status? They are shell-shocked from war and they know not what they say.
 
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Optimus said:
The key to Nintendo's success is to deliver a desirable piece of hardware at a reasonable cost paired with evergreen titles everyone will want such as Mario Kart and Animal Crossing. As long as they deliver the hardware at a compelling price paired with the software they will sell extremely well. It's really not about the gimmicks.
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Nintendo also is a role model example of how great exclusivity is. They have a base that would literally crawl over shards of glass to buy their next system and their next game and that's because Nintendo has carefully cultivated a reputation; that name means something to them.
 
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lock2k said:
This whole "exclusivity has no place in gaming" bullshit talk is some heavy copium shit. God damn
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HeresJohnny said:
Nintendo also is a role model example of how great exclusivity is. They have a base that would literally crawl over shards of glass to buy their next system and their next game and that's because Nintendo has carefully cultivated a reputation; that name means something to them.
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Certainly there is something to be said of software development that is allowed to focus on the nuances and strengths of a single piece of hardware. In recent console generations, this has been lost with the movement away from custom chips and hardware, and really we see that console gaming hasn't pushed the leading edge technologically in some time. Nintendo is still a home to gaming innovation even if the rest of the industry has abandoned it to maximize $$$$.

Not that Nintendo doesn't maximize $$$$ but they still prioritize new experiences over pure raw power, sometimes even to the detriment of the hardware's mainstream capabilities...
 
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Amorous Biscuit said:
Luigi's Mansion at near enough 14m units sold is kind of staggering to me.

I think Nintendo really might surpass the PS2...
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If Switch 2 launching this year I don't see it passing PS2. Only ways is if Nintendo manufacture more and continue to sell for 2 more years along with Switch 2.

But I don't recall Nintendo kept manufacturing previous gen(especially for more than a year) as new Gen begins.

Edit: If MS is exiting hardware, Foxcon may have lines open to manufacture more Switch and Switch 2! 😂
 
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