Nintendo Switch she has outperform Wii . sales the lifetime of a motion-focused console, based on unofficial estimates released by VGChartz and distributed by Comic book. Hybrid consoles sold, according to these figures, 1.16 million units worldwide in the week ending December 25, reaching 101.88 million units and surpassed the 101.63 million Wii distributed before production was discontinued in 2013.

Nintendo Switch launched in mainstream markets on March 3, 2017, so in five years he has surpassed, always in accordance with the above-mentioned media sales forecast, the sales the Wii has achieved in eight years. Hybrid becomes the sixth best-selling console in history, preceded by PlayStation (102.49 million), Playstation 4 (116.80 million so far) and Game Boy (118.69 million). Further afield are the Nintendo DS (154.02 million) and the PlayStation 2 (about 155 million).

However, it should be noted that these figures are unofficial, although they will be known in Nintendo’s next financial report. The last one, published in November, reveals that the Nintendo Switch has sold out 92.87 million as of September 30 from 2021, when OLED model not released yet, which for several weeks further boosted sales of hybrid consoles.

It has more than two million units in Spain

Information from VGChartz also separate Switch sales by region. In the United States has reached 34.74 million, in Europe 26.90 million and in Japan 22.98 million. Separated by the countries of the Old Continent, in France there are more than 6.68 million, in Germany 5.44 million and in the UK 5.14 million. According to official data from GfK and Nintendo, in Spanish consoles exceed two million on October 24, thus becoming best-selling machine in the country for three consecutive years.