The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time‎

While the Nintendo Switch 2 went on sale in mid-2025, some people are still buying the original – this gave it enough of a push to become Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time. Nintendo Switch sales now stand at 155.37 million units, moving it past the former king, the Nintendo DS, which sits at 154.02 million units sold. In third place is a classic, the Nintendo Game Boy (though note that the company folds multiple variants into one entry, e.g. the Game Boy Color). As for the Switch 2, that opened with 6 million units sold in under a month and is now at 17.37 million total –...