Nintendo released its third quarterly results for fiscal year 2026 today, detailing up to December 31, 2025, revealing that over the previous holiday season, the Nintendo Switch became the highest-selling console of all time for the company, overtaking the Nintendo DS. Alongside that, the Kyoto company unveiled the weekly sales numbers for the Nintendo Switch 2, showing that Switch 2’s sales are vastly ahead of the original Switch’s in the same time frame. Before then, game sales numbers were also announced. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold a whopping 70 million copies. When combined with Wii U’s Mario Kart 8 numbers, the game has taken back fourth place on the highest-selling video games of all time charts from Red Dead Redemption 2, with 79.05 million copies sold. Wii Sports remains in third place with 82.9 million copies. For Nintendo Switch 2, Mario Kart World has reached 14.03 million copies sold, Donkey Kong Bananza has passed 4.25 million and Kirby Air Riders is at 1.76 million. Super Mario Odyssey has also passed 30 million copies sold worldwide. Nintendo Switch passing the sales numbers of the Nintendo DS has been a long time coming, being more of a “when” than “if.” At 155.37 million, the Switch is now the second-best-selling console of all time, and is only under 5 million units short of the PlayStation 2, which has sold more than 160 million. Nintendo predicts it will sell another 600,000 original Switch units this fiscal year (which ends March 31). Nintendo’s latest console, Switch 2, has already sold 17.37 million units, surpassing the lifetime sales of the Wii U and standing just 4.5 million units behind the Nintendo GameCube. Nintendo noted the Switch 2 had sold 15 million consoles by its 30th week on sale. During the same time frame, the Nintendo Switch was only half that amount at 7 million. Nintendo has raised its Switch 2 sales forecast, predicting that by the end of the fiscal year, 19 million Switch 2s will be sold through to customers. Source: Nintendo official website
