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List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games

A Nintendo Switch console with Joy-Con

This is a list of video games for the Nintendo Switch video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. As Nintendo shares the sales of their video games every quarter while most other publishers do not share sales figures per console, this list consists mostly of Nintendo-published titles.

Nintendo Switch, a hybrid home console and handheld device, launched worldwide on March 3, 2017. By the end of 2017, it had outsold the lifetime sales of Wii U, its home console predecessor.[1] In September 2019, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Switch Lite, a handheld-only version of the system. By the end of 2020, total Nintendo Switch family units had outsold the lifetime sales of the Nintendo 3DS, its handheld console predecessor, by selling nearly 80 million units.[2] As of June 30, 2024, 143.42 million Nintendo Switch consoles had been shipped, with over 1.26 billion copies of games having been shipped for the platform.[3] The three best-selling games on the platform have been Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 62.90 million units sold, Animal Crossing: New Horizons at 45.85 million units, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at 34.66 million units.[4] The three best-selling franchises on the platform have been Mario at 237.56 million units sold, Pokémon at 102.87 million units, and The Legend of Zelda at 67.46 million units. Other major selling franchises include Splatoon which sold 25.56 million units and Kirby which sold 13.36 million units.

List

Notes

  1. ^ Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.
  2. ^ Monster Hunter Rise sales breakdown:
    • Worldwide until December 31, 2021 – 7.70 million[10]
    • Japan physical Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 0.326 million[11]
  3. ^ Minecraft physical sales breakdown:
    • France – 1.51 million[13][14][15][16][17][18]
    • Japan – 3.51 million[19]
    • Spain – 0.65 million[20]
  4. ^ New Pokémon Snap sales breakdown:
    • Worldwide – 2.40 million[25]
    • Japan – 0.34 million (physical)[26]
  5. ^ Octopath Traveler sales breakdown:
    • Worldwide – 1.9 million[27]
    • Japan – 0.26 million (physical)[9]
  6. ^ Japan only
  7. ^ Pokkén Tournament DX sales breakdown:
    • Worldwide – 1.16 million[32]
    • Japan – 0.38 million (physical)[9]
  8. ^ Famitsu reports retail sales only
  9. ^ Mario & Sonic sales breakdown:
    • Worldwide as of March 31, 2020 – 0.9 million[36]
    • Japan physical afterwards from April 5, 2020 up until March 3, 2022 – 0.126 million[37][38]

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