Nintendo has a real winner on their hands with the Switch, as the console-handheld hybrid managed to reach new heights, as found in the company's latest financial results. During the holiday season, 10.81 million Nintendo Switch systems were sold, bringing the lifetime sales up to a whopping 52.48 million. That means the Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Super Nintendo, which back in its day, shifted 49.1 million units. The Switch has also surpassed the Xbox One, just barely beating out sales for Microsoft's console, in a much shorter timeframe. Where the Xbox One had 74 (released in 2013) months to get to 50 million sales, the Nintendo Switch (released in 2017) performed this feat in 34 months. It's onwards and upwards for Nintendo's latest hardware, which will need to sell another 10 million units to reach its next milestone: outselling the NES.

In the sales data, we also get to see new figures for games on the platform, most notably of which is Pokemon Sword and Shield, which have become the 5th most popular game on the Switch, selling 16.06 million copies since their release last November.

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[Reploid]

>surpassing Xbox One
Ok

>surpassing SNES
Whaaaat???...

 

[emigre]

>surpassing SNES
Whaaaat???...

Not that surprising. the PS1 was the first console to really do gangbuster sales numbers.

 

[James_]

In the sales data, we also get to see new figures for games on the platform, most notably of which is Pokemon Sword and Shield, which have become the 5th most popular game on the Switch, selling 16.06 copies since their release last November.

Damn, only 16 copies? Sword and Shield is that unpopular?

 

[Deleted User]

Damn, only 16 copies? Sword and Shield is that unpopular?

I also got surprised that it sold only 16 copies. I was sure it's gonna sell at least double than that.

 

[DANTENDO]

>surpassing Xbox One
Ok

>surpassing SNES
Whaaaat???...

ther wasnt any casual gamers back then

 

[Chary]

Damn, only 16 copies? Sword and Shield is that unpopular?

Gosh dang, every time. Literally every time I do these, I miss a million. I read it and re-read and somehow all the millions blend into my brain and become mush. And then one mistake sneaks away, unnoticed.

 

[Reploid]

Pkmn exhausted itself decade ago, last entry as just sloppy job and everybody knows that. Yet, they buy it like crazy. Why?

 

[DANTENDO]

Pkmn exhausted itself decade ago, last entry as just sloppy job and everybody knows that. Yet, they buy it like crazy. Why?

Because people read ign and it got 9.3

 

[IC_]

And 200 million pairs of joycons because of drift?

 

[warweeny]

Pkmn exhausted itself decade ago, last entry as just sloppy job and everybody knows that. Yet, they buy it like crazy. Why?

nintendo fanboys buy anything from them, they don't care, usually they have low IQ and are tone deaf to criticism.

 

[Agusto101]

Not that surprising. the PS1 was the first console to really do gangbuster sales numbers.

Yeah then we focus on games sales and boom magic crush ps like trash, so we can only conclude it sell consoles but with no a Good reason , and yeah probably someone are going to throw bullcrap at me (probably dantendo, a special guy) but meh, I'm only saying truths so i dont care, why anyone talk about game sales ? PLEASE it's the same joke all time poor fellas and NO. I dont buy pokemon and everything Nintendo make I only purchase the really good ones that are a lot (guy above me knows for sure hahaha ).

 

[DANTENDO]

Yeah then we focus on games sales and boom magic crush ps like trash, so we can only conclude it sell consoles but with no a Good reason , and yeah probably someone are going to throw bullcrap at me (probably dantendo, a special guy) but meh, I'm only saying truths so i dont care, why anyone talk about game sales ? PLEASE it's the same joke all time poor fellas and NO. I dont buy pokemon and everything Nintendo make I only purchase the really good ones that are a lot (guy above me knows for sure hahaha ).

Hi agusto I saw my name so thought I'd better reply I don't kno what your trying to say exactly something about you want to see total game sales or something - are you supporting nintendo or Sony as I'm not sure what your view is on them both from your comment-so if can can you clarify to me what your saying about nintendo and Sony

 

[Spider_Man]

Why cant gbatemp just post sales of the switch without having to go all fanboy and compare it to another system selling not as well.

We dont care, console sales mean fuck all.

Doesnt change the fact nintendo still failed to improve and get better third party support and games.

Yea we have these very old ports, bravo, id rather have uad the hardware back then rather than gimicks and have had the option to play these games when it was new.

Not 10+years later.

 

[Enryx25]

I just realized this forum has an hate boner for Nintendo

 

[Kubas_inko]

Doesnt change the fact nintendo still failed to improve and get better third party support and games

You have to be joking. Switch is an indie machine...
And there is plenty of third party support compared to any other ninty console before.

Also, I have no idea, where you see the "fanboism", as everyone compares console all the time.

You should probably chill out, again.

 

[DANTENDO]

Why cant gbatemp just post sales of the switch without having to go all fanboy and compare it to another system selling not as well.

We dont care, console sales mean fuck all.

Doesnt change the fact nintendo still failed to improve and get better third party support and games.

Yea we have these very old ports, bravo, id rather have uad the hardware back then rather than gimicks and have had the option to play these games when it was new.

Not 10+years later.

retroboy i dont agree with everything you say but some of yr comments are quite funny lol but cmon in her post i cant see any fanboyism-its just stating how it is

 

[Agusto101]

Hi agusto I saw my name so thought I'd better reply I don't kno what your trying to say exactly something about you want to see total game sales or something - are you supporting nintendo or Sony as I'm not sure what your view is on them both from your comment-so if can can you clarify to me what your saying about nintendo and Sony

Yeah right there guys , congrats and I'm taking obviously about that people this days think ps4 is the best just because sales and like 2 or 3 exclusives, all. The people that have a little of culture now that Nintendo is the king on game sales , and a videoconsole is about ? GAMES Yeah there is your answer hope it helps but I doubt it.

 

[tech3475]

Pkmn exhausted itself decade ago, last entry as just sloppy job and everybody knows that. Yet, they buy it like crazy. Why?

Young kids probably help, one of my young nephews recently got into the anime and I doubt they’d care about Dexit, models, etc. Unless it happens to exclude their favourite.

 

[banjo2]

Why cant gbatemp just post sales of the switch without having to go all fanboy and compare it to another system selling not as well.

We dont care, console sales mean fuck all.

Doesnt change the fact nintendo still failed to improve and get better third party support and games.

Yea we have these very old ports, bravo, id rather have uad the hardware back then rather than gimicks and have had the option to play these games when it was new.

Not 10+years later.

Didn't we talk about the PS4 surpassing the Wii not too long ago?

Edit: NSW is the newest system out too, XbOne and PS4 are being phased out, so...