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Nintendo Switch all-time sales reach 152 million, making the day it surpasses the PS2 as the best-selling console of all time that much closer
Nintendo already projects that the Switch will surpass the DS as their best-selling console ever by the end of 2025.
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It’s that time of year again – the time when companies post their financial reports from the past year to let investors (and everyone else) know how well they’re doing. For Nintendo, their figures included the fact that the Nintendo Switch has crossed a crucial milestone in its lifetime sales and is set to become the company’s best-selling console ever, even as its successor, the Switch 2, gets ready to hit shelves.
As of the end of March 2025, the Nintendo Switch has sold 152.12 million units worldwide, which puts it just behind the Nintendo DS’ 154.02 million units sold in the company’s all-time sales figures. It also puts it within striking distance of the PlayStation 2 for the title of the best-selling console of all time. The PS2 sold around 160 million units worldwide while it was in production.
According to their financial report, Nintendo expects to sell another 4 million Switch consoles even after the Switch 2 goes on sale on June 5, 2025, which means that it will only need two years to take the crown from Sony. That is in addition to the 15 million Switch 2 units that Nintendo expects to sell in the next financial year.
Of course, this is all up in the air at the moment as the entire gaming industry continues to adjust to the new economic environment that President Trump’s tariffs have created. If tariffs on items made in China, which includes parts of the Switch and Switch 2 consoles and controllers, remain in place, it could put them out of reach of some U.S. gamers for the next few years... but will that be enough to keep the Switch from taking the all-time console champion crown?
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