The unique Nintendo Switch has surpassed the DS in gross sales, formally reaching a milestone as Nintendo’s best-selling online game system of all time. With 155.37 million items offered as of the final week of December 2025, the Switch solely trails Sony’s PlayStation 2 for the all-time document.
This achievement was lengthy anticipated, with the Switch proven to be inching towards the DS’s numbers in Nintendo’s final quarterly earnings report. Nintendo DS, which was launched in 2004 and has lengthy since been discontinued, offered 154.02 million items in its lifetime.
For the Switch to dethrone the PS2, it’s going to should overtake its astounding determine of over 160 million consoles sold–if Nintendo can someway squeeze out greater than 5 million gross sales.
The unique Switch is Nintendo’s best-selling system as of December 31, 2025.
Nintendo’s latest financial report additionally solidified the Switch 2’s standing as the corporate’s fastest-selling console of all time. And to the shock of nobody, the Switch 2 has already outsold the Wii U after solely seven months available on the market. Based on the report, the Switch 2 has reached 17.37 million items offered, with software program gross sales hitting 37.93 million.
Even with all eyes on Nintendo’s new console, software program for the unique Switch has nonetheless been shifting up to now 9 months, with round 2.39 million copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe promoting in that interval. The Switch 1 model of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which launched in October, is the best-selling recreation on the platform up to now 9 months, with over 8.41 million copies. The Switch 2 Version, which is tracked individually, reached 3.89 million items offered.
Mario Kart World seems to be persevering with the legacy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, rising because the Switch 2’s highest-selling title thus far with 14 million copies offered. Nintendo offered a bundle with the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World at launch and discontinued the bundle within the fall.