Switch Is About To Pass DS To Become Nintendo's Best-Selling Platform Ever, But May Not Beat PS2

"Nintendo released its latest quarterly earnings report today for the six-month period that ended on September 30, revealing a number of new details about the health of the company's business, including updated sales figures for the Switch and Switch 2. The original Switch has now sold 154.01 million units since it launched in 2017, and that's fairly close to the PS2's lifetime record of 160 million."

"Will the Switch be able to catch the PS2? Probably not, says one analyst. Even so, the Switch is about to pass the Nintendo DS (154.02 million units sold) to become Nintendo's best-selling platform ever. It needs just 10,000 more sales to match the DS. This has no doubt already happened, as Nintendo's numbers run through September 30, and that's already more than a month ago."

"While Nintendo has boosted its sales projections for the Switch 2 from 15 million to 19 million for the current fiscal year, the company is downgrading its outlook for the original Switch. The company previously said it expected to sell 4.5 million units of the console during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026. However, the company is now modeling sales of 4 million units."

Nintendo's six-month earnings report through September 30 shows the original Switch sold 154.01 million units since its 2017 launch, approaching the PS2's 160 million lifetime record. The original model moved 4.72 million units in the six-month period, down 60% year-over-year as the Switch 2 launched in June 2025. The Switch 2 has sold more than 10.36 million units and became the fastest-selling console over its first four months. Nintendo raised Switch 2 sales guidance from 15 million to 19 million for the fiscal year while lowering the original Switch forecast from 4.5 million to 4 million units.

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