Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game sold 52 million units, Pokémon Scarlet/Violet sold 20.61 million copies
Kodoani.com – Nintendo’s latest earnings release for the first three quarters of fiscal 2022 (April 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022) announced on Tuesday that the console Nintendo Switch The company’s unit has sold 122.55 million units worldwide as of December 31. This number includes sales for the Nintendo Switch, Lite, and OLED consoles.
The console overtook Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Game Boy/Game Boy Color to become the third best-selling console of all time.
Switch sales fell 21.3% year-on-year to 14.91 million units in the first three quarters, due to a shortage of semiconductors and other parts.
Nintendo sold 5.22 million Switch units, 2 million Switch Lite units, and 7.69 million Switch OLED units between April 2022 and December 2022. The company sold 172.11 million units of first-party Switch games in the same time period. This represents a 4.0% year-over-year decline in software sales. During the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 from September 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022, Nintendo sold 76.70 million units of first-party Switch games.
The company revealed total updated game sales as of December 31, including:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 52 million Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 41.59 million Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 30.44 million The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 29 million Pokémon Sword/ Pokémon Shield: 25.68 million Super Mario Odyssey: 25.12 million Pokémon Scarlet/ Pokémon Violet: 20.61 million Super Mario Party : 18.79 million Ring Fit Adventure: 15.22 million Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!/ Pokémon : Let’s Go, Eevee! : 15.07 million Legendary Pokémon: Arceus – 14.63 million Splatoon 3: 10.13 million Nintendo Switch Sports: 8.61 million Kirby and the Forgotten Land: 6.12 million
Nintendo’s December 2021 earnings report previously revealed that the Switch surpassed the Nintendo Wii’s lifetime sales of 101.63 million with 103.54 million units. The company’s earnings report for fiscal year 2021 (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022) reported a 20% decrease in console sales compared to the same period last year to 23.06 million units. on sale from April 2021 to March 2022.
The Switch overtook the PlayStation 4 in lifetime sales in the United States in May 2022.
