While the Nintendo Switch 2 went on sale in mid-2025, some people are still buying the original – this gave it enough of a push to become Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time.
Nintendo Switch sales now stand at 155.37 million units, moving it past the former king, the Nintendo DS, which sits at 154.02 million units sold. In third place is a classic, the Nintendo Game Boy (though note that the company folds multiple variants into one entry, e.g. the Game Boy Color).
As for the Switch 2, that opened with 6 million units sold in under a month and is now at 17.37 million total – there’s a long way to go until it can catch up to its predecessor.
Nintendo also lists the number of games sold – in this category, the original Switch is an absolute beast with 1,500.16 million games sold. For comparison, the DS moved an impressive 948.76 million games and in third place is, surprisingly, the Nintendo Wii with 921.85 million games sold. We say “surprisingly” because Nintendo sold 101.63 million Wiis, which is less than the Game Boy. However, the Game Boy only managed 501.11 million games (which is still very impressive, mind you).
Anyway, while the Switch is the best-selling Nintendo console of all time, it’s not the overall champ – that title is held by the Sony PlayStation 2, which sold 160 million units during its ridiculously long lifespan (it made its debut in 2000 and was only discontinued in 2013). The PS2 is also ahead in number of games sold, accounting for 1.54 billion.
