Although it was lastly changed final 12 months by the new Switch 2, the orginal swap isn’t carried out simply but. Many current Switch video games (and a handful of main updates, like the one for Animal Crossing) have been launched in each Switch and Switch 2 editions, and Nintendo continues to promote all editions of the unique console as entry-level methods for many who can’t pay $450 for a Switch 2.
The 9-year-old Switch’s continued availability has helped it clear a milestone, based on the firm’s third-quarter monetary outcomes (PDF). As of December 31, 2025, Nintendo says the Switch “has reached the highest sales volume of any Nintendo hardware” with a complete of 155.37 million models bought, surpassing the unique DS’s lifetime whole of 154.02 million models. The console has bought 3.25 million models in Nintendo’s fiscal 2026 up to now, together with 1.36 million models over the holidays. Those consoles have bought regardless of value hikes that Nintendo launched in August of 2025, citing “market conditions.”
That makes the Switch the second-bestselling game console of all time, simply three years after it grew to become the third-bestselling game console of all time. The only frontier left for the Switch to overcome is Sony’s PlayStation 2, which Sony says bought “over 160 million units” over its lengthy life. At its present gross sales price (Nintendo predicts it’ll promote roughly 750,000 Switches in the subsequent quarter), it could take the Switch one other couple of years to cross that line, however these numbers are prone to taper off as we get deeper into the Switch 2 period.