The Nintendo Switch inches closer to becoming the best-selling console of all time

Nintendo
has
released
its
latest
financial
report,
spilling
all
the
lovely
beans
on
how
well
the

Switch
is
doing,
how
many
games
have
been
sold
and
how
well
the
company
expects
to
do
in
the
coming
year.

As
part
of
the
report,
Nintendo
revealed
that
the

Nintendo
Switch
has
now
sold
an
impressive
146.04
million
units,
with
over
15
million
being
sold
between
March
2022
and
March
2023.
That
puts
it
about
8
million
units
away
from
beating
the
Nintendo
DS,
the
company’s
most
successful
piece
of
hardware.

It
also
means
that
the
Switch
is
about
9
million
units
away
from
outselling
the
iconic
PlayStation
2,
the

current
best-selling
console
of
all
time
sitting
at
155
million.

There
is
one
slightly
complication
to
that
stat:
Jim
Ryan
previously
said
in
the
Official
PlayStation
Podcast
that
since

Sony
has
stopped
reporting
on
PS2
sales
in
2012
the
console
kept
on
selling
and
reached
160
million.
However,
since
this
has
never
been
verified
in
any
Sony
financial
reports,
the
official
figure
remains
155
million
units
sold.

While

Nintendo
has
cut
its
forecast
for
Switch
sales
again
to
12.5m
for
this
fiscal
year
and
the
Nintendo
Switch
2
is
still
on
track
to
be
announced
by
the
end
of
this
fiscal
year,
it
seems
all
but
certain
that
the
Switch
will
sell
enough
to
take
the
crown
from
the
PlayStation
2.

People
are
still
buying
games
for
the
aging
Switch
as
well.
As
part
of
the
latest
financial,
Nintendo
included
figures
for
some
of
its
games.
Mario
Kart
8
has
somehow
sold
another
1.37
million
copies,
raising
a
very
important
question:
who
the
hell
is
still
buying
the
game?
Surely
at
this
point
everyone
on
the
planet
and
their
pets
have
played
it?
I’m
convinced
that
if
the
world
simply
ceased
to
exist
tomorrow,
Mario
Kart
would
still
sell
another
million
by
next
year.

The
Legend
of
Zelda:
Echoes
of
Wisdom
might
not
have
achieved
the
same
insane
success
that
Tears
of
the
Kingdom
managed,
but
its
still
shifted
2.58
million
copies
since
launching
before
the
end
of
September.