{"id":1171346,"date":"2026-02-12T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=555598"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:36:08","slug":"has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Nintendo just set up the original Switch to be the best-selling console of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">The sticker shock of Nintendo\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/polygon.com\/nintendo-switch-2\/553517\/price-interview-tariffs\">$449.99 pricing for Switch 2<\/a> has not yet subsided \u2014 and it could yet get even worse, if Nintendo decides to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/nintendo-switch-2\/553604\/switch-2-pre-order-delay-tariffs-economic-analysis-joost-van-dreunen\">increase the price further<\/a> in response to President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs. But the high price for Nintendo\u2019s new console might have an unexpected consequence for its old one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The original Nintendo Switch has sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/hard_soft\/index.html\">150 million units<\/a>, making it the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles\">third-best-selling console of all time<\/a>. Ahead of it are Nintendo DS, at 154 million units, and PlayStation 2, at over 160 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-gb\/playstation-history\/2000-ps2-psp\/\">according to Sony<\/a>. My assumption had been that the Switch would be able to claim second place from the DS, but that the all-time console crown would probably elude it. Now, I\u2019m not so sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Let\u2019s look at the math. Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/nintendo\/518783\/sswitch-sales-fall-ahead-of-switch-2\">predicted it would sell 11 million Switches<\/a> during its most recent fiscal year, which just ended. This represents a very steep 30% drop from the previous year\u2019s sales \u2014 a trend that, I assumed, would get even worse once the Switch 2 was on sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Regardless, it\u2019s a given that the Switch will eventually sell enough to outstrip the DS; if, as Nintendo predicted, 1.5 million Switches were sold in the first quarter of 2025, then it\u2019s already up to 152 million in lifetime sales. But that means to surpass PS2, Nintendo would have to sell 8 million more units <em>after <\/em>the Switch 2 is released on June 5. It would take, perhaps, two years of steady sales to shift that many, and it was hard to imagine the aging console maintaining that kind of momentum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hands holding both a Switch 2 and an Nintendo Switch OLED model against a red background\" title=\"Hands holding both a Switch 2 and an Nintendo Switch OLED model against a red background\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"Have the Switch and Switch 2 been set up to coexist for a while? | Photo: AFP via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: AFP via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That doesn\u2019t seem so hard to imagine now. Consider the pricing tiers of what Nintendo likes to call \u201cthe Nintendo Switch family of consoles.\u201d The Switch Lite is $199.99. The Switch is $299.99. The OLED Switch is $349.99. And now we know that the Switch 2 will cost $449.99 (at least).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Only the OLED Switch, the current premium offering, looks like it no longer has a place in that lineup. The other models all occupy markedly different price points and value propositions. The Switch 2\u2019s price point is high enough to put it in a different class altogether, competing with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/nintendo-switch-2\/553131\/pc-handhelds-steam-deck-vs-switch-2\">and the new wave of PC handhelds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Consider, too, the kind of people who buy Nintendo Switch consoles who <em>aren\u2019t <\/em>gaming enthusiasts. They are families, parents, casual gamers. The family angle is particularly pertinent. At $449.99, the Switch 2 is nobody\u2019s idea of My First Game Console. But new gamers are born every year, and their sixth and seventh and eighth birthdays and all those Christmases are still going to roll around, regardless of whether there\u2019s a new Nintendo console at an appropriate price to fill that need. Those kids\u2019 parents are probably going to opt for an older-model Switch and not worry about the fact that it has few new games coming out, when their little ones have eight years\u2019 worth of one of the deepest back catalogs in gaming history to dig into. (Trust me on this \u2014 I\u2019m one of those parents.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It\u2019s also likely that none of these price points are changing even after the Switch 2 comes out. Nintendo didn\u2019t lower the Switch\u2019s price at all during its lifespan, and the same is likely to be true of the Switch 2. So it\u2019s reasonable to think that a $199.99 Switch Lite might still look like a tempting proposition to a new gamer in two years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;Metroid Prime 4&lt;\/em&gt; is coming to the original Switch\u2026 \" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\u2026and so is &lt;em&gt;Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A&lt;\/em&gt;.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In this scenario, the biggest challenge Nintendo faces in racking up further Switch sales is software. Consoles do need new games to survive, and the Switch\u2019s release schedule is bound to dry up somewhat once Nintendo\u2019s in-house studios move on to the new hardware and third-party publishers have an excuse not to worry about its weak tech specs anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But the Switch does have two major system-selling releases for the 2025 holiday season, in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game\/metroid-prime-4-beyond\/39994\"><em>Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game\/pokemon-legends-z-a\/554934\"><em>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/em><\/a>. And Nintendo has even announced two 2026 games for the console, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game\/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream\/548029\"><em>Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/gaming\/547833\/new-rhythm-heaven-groove-announced\"><em>Rhythm Heaven Groove<\/em>,<\/a> indicating that it\u2019s prepared to keep supporting the Switch for a while yet. Indie developers whose games don\u2019t require much graphical horsepower will probably continue to publish on the Switch, too. Thanks to its gigantic install base, the Switch might enjoy a longer period of cross-gen releases than you\u2019d typically expect \u2014 in line with the unusually long transitional period from PS4 and Xbox One to PS5 and Xbox Series X that we\u2019ve just seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">All of which is to say, I think the Switch could still stick around for another two years at least, selling 1-2 million consoles per quarter and more around the holidays. This would give it just enough momentum to rack up those 8 million sales and reel in PS2 \u2014 which, by the way, itself enjoyed a very long sales tail after the PS3 was released at a then-eye-watering $499.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Nobody is happy about the Switch 2\u2019s pricing \u2014 not even Nintendo, I suspect, which might have preferred to price it at $399 if inflation, the cost of components, and those dreaded \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/nintendo-switch-2\/553133\/pre-orders-delayed-trump-tariff\">evolving market conditions<\/a>\u201d had allowed. But nobody can deny that the Switch is one of the all-time great video game consoles, and that it deserves a long victory lap \u2014 and a chance to take a pop at the king.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/nintendo\/555598\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sticker shock of Nintendo\u2019s $449.99 pricing for Switch 2 has not yet subsided \u2014 and it could yet get even worse, if Nintendo decides to increase the price further in response to President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs. But the high price for Nintendo\u2019s new console might have an unexpected consequence for its old one. The original Nintendo Switch has sold 150 million units, making it the third-best-selling console of all time. Ahead of it are Nintendo DS, at 154 million units, and PlayStation 2, at over 160 million, according to Sony. My assumption had been that the Switch would be able to claim second place from the DS, but that the all-time console crown would probably elude it. Now, I\u2019m not so sure.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has Nintendo just set up the original Switch to be the best-selling console of all time? | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The sticker shock of Nintendo\u2019s $449.99 pricing for Switch 2 has not yet subsided \u2014 and it could yet get even worse, if Nintendo decides to increase the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/has-nintendo-just-set-up-the-original-switch-to-be-the-best-selling-console-of-all-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has Nintendo just set up the original Switch to be the best-selling console of all time? 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