Whereas all eyes are on the Switch 2 console following the discharge of Nintendo’s monetary outcomes briefing immediately, its predecessor has continued to cement itself as Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time with 155.92 million consoles bought as of March 31, 2026. That places the Switch inside spitting distance of Sony’s PlayStation 2–currently the best-selling console of all time, with 160 million items bought as of March 31, 2024.
To put all of this into perspective, 19.86 million Switch 2 consoles have been bought as of March 31, and the Switch has lengthy surpassed the 154 million lifetime gross sales of the Nintendo DS. Nintendo is predicting that it will promote fewer Switch 2 consoles in its second yr on the market–around 16.5 million items based on its estimates–due to all kinds of world components.
Sony’s PS2 determine was revised again in 2024 when the Nintendo console started closing the gap. The gross sales report stood at 155 million PS2s bought to 143.42 million Switch consoles bought in August that yr, with the quantity ultimately being revised after the ultimate PS2 unit was manufactured.
Former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan confirmed the up to date complete in a podcast earlier than it was formally added to the PlayStation historical past web page. If Nintendo needs to beat that report, promoting one other 4-5 million Switch consoles is not unfeasible given the lengthy legs of its {hardware}, however a number of components would possibly forestall it from dethroning Sony as an all-time bestseller.
The most evident of those is a looming worth hike, as it isn’t solely the Switch 2 that can be costlier later this yr. Nintendo raised the worth of all Switch console fashions late final yr, and extra worth hikes have been introduced for Japan, one of many markets the place the Switch is at its strongest.