"This week the company announced it had sold 7 million Switch 2 consoles during the 2025 holiday period, bringing the lifetime sales up to 17 million for the first six months. Meanwhile the original Switch sold an additional 1.36 million units, with another 750,000 expected to sell through the end of the current fiscal year on March 31, 2026. The original Switch has now cleared the lifetime total of 154 million set by the DS, officially making it the company's most popular console ever."
"While digital sales remain increasingly dominant, physical game sales usually tick up during the holiday as people gift each other games. Well, for the Switch 2's first holiday, digital sales did way better than expected. Nintendo reported a 14.7 percent increase year-over-year. It attributed that "mainly due to an increase in sales of downloadable versions of packaged software and add-on content." And this excludes people buying the digital version of Mario Kart World via the Switch 2 bundle. The proportion of packaged software that was sold in downloadable versions in holiday 2024 was 56 percent. In 2025 it was 58.7 percent."
Nintendo sold 7 million Switch 2 consoles during the 2025 holiday, bringing Switch 2 lifetime sales to 17 million in its first six months. The original Switch added 1.36 million units and is projected to sell about 750,000 more through March 31, 2026, pushing its lifetime beyond 154 million and making it Nintendo's most popular console. The original Switch remains short of the PlayStation 2's 160 million lifetime units, needing roughly five million more to surpass it. Digital sales grew 14.7 percent year-over-year, with downloadable packaged software and add-on content driving the increase and comprising 58.7 percent of packaged software sales in holiday 2025.
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