Last week the company Nintendo issued a quarterly financial report in which it announced that Switch sales close to 70,000,000 consoles… At the same time, it updated information on its most successful games for the hybrid platform, and later provided more detailed statistics.
This is what Nintendo’s top 10 best selling games for Switch look like as of September 30, 2023:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 28,990,000 copies (with original version for Wii U – 37,400,000 copies)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 26,040,000 copies
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 21,100,000 copies
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 19,740,000 copies
- Pokemon Sword & Shiled – 19,020,000 copies
- Super Mario Odyssey – 18,990,000 copies
- Pokemon Let’s Go – 12,490,000 copies
- Super Mario Party – 12,100,000 copies
- Splatoon 2 – 11,270,000 copies
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 8,320,000 copies
Thus, the top ten included a racing game, a life simulator, a fighting game, an open world adventure, two RPGs, a 3D platformer, a party game, a third person shooter, and a 2D platformer.
Six Switch games are forecast to have sold over 20 million copies by the end of the year, with two of them selling over 30,000,000 copies.… Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the “youngest” of them, was released in March 2023 and holds the record for the fastest growing audience.
Nintendo has also updated sales of several other games as of September 30, 2023:
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 7,830,000 copies
- Ring Fit Adventure – 5,800,000 copies
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars – 5,200,000 copies
- Paper Mario: The Origami King – 2,820,000 copies
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 1,800,000 copies
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”Edition – 1,400,000 copies
The first positions on this list are tagged in the total sales of over 10 million copies.… Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is the only version of the game with a circulation of more than 1 million copies – releases for Wii and New Nintendo 3DS never reached this level.
And these are games with sales as of June 30, 2023:
- Super mario maIn the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”ker 2 – 5,890,00In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”0 copies
- The Legend of ZeldIn the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”a: Link’s AwaIn the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”kening – 4,570,000 copies
- 1-2-Switch – 3,310,000 copies
- Mario Tennis Aces – 3,290,000 copies
- Kirby Star Allies – 3,150,000 copies
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses – 3,020,000 copies
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – 2,930,000 copies
- ARMS – 2,470,000 copies
- Yoshi’s Crafted World – 2,090,000 copies
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – 2,050,000 copies
- Pokkén Tournament DX – 1,800,000 copies (only in the West, with Japan – over 2,000,000)
- Octopath Traveler – 1,680,000 copies (only in the West, with Japan – over 2,000,000)
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 1,580,000 copies
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX – 1,430,000 copies
- Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit – 1,370,000 copies
- Astral Chain – 1,140,000 copies
- Marvel In the meantime, there is no need to know about it. ”Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order – 1,130,000 copies
It can be noted here that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the first game in the series to sell over two million copies, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses has reached the status of the most successful Japanese tactical RPG in history… The previous record holder was Final Fantasy Tactics for the first PlayStation with 2.4 million copies.
It is also interesting that PlatinumGames’ Astral Chain Outperforms Bayonetta 2 Custom Versions on Switch and Wii U – Nintendo never mentioned them in the official lists of millionaires. This is already one of the most popular original games of the Japanese studio.
Games on Nintendo Switch sell better than Nintendo 3DS and Wii U combined.
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