It’s official: the Nintendo Switch is now the company’s king of consoles .  

The Nintendo Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console ever, surpassing the DS with 155.37M units sold. Plus, Switch 2 is breaking sales records!

As of December 31, 2025, the original Switch has officially surpassed the DS to become Nintendo’s best-selling hardware of all time . With 155.37 million units sold, it finally edged out the DS’s long-standing record of 154.02 million . This milestone comes on the heels of a massive holiday surge , driven largely by the brand-new Switch 2 . According to Nintendo’s latest earnings report, the successor is already a juggernaut, moving 7.01 million units over the holidays and reaching 17.37 million total units through the third quarter. It is, quite simply, the fastest-selling platform Nintendo has ever put on shelves .

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Even with the new hardware taking center stage, the original Switch hasn’t disappeared . It moved a respectable 1.36 million units in Q3 of fiscal 2026, thanks mostly to its lower price point . Nintendo predicted this flip last year, and the holiday season provided the final push needed to dethrone the DS . Now, there is only one target left: Sony’s PlayStation 2 . The Switch is currently trailing the PS2 by just 4.63 million units for the title of best-selling console in history . If Nintendo keeps the original model in production for another couple of years, that all-time record is well within reach .

Meanwhile, the Switch 2 is performing like a “sales machine .” After a holiday performance that caught even some optimists by surprise , Nintendo is on track to hit its 19-million-unit goal for the fiscal year ending March 31 . This is a significant jump from the company’s initial forecast of 15 million set earlier in 2025—a target they’ve already cleared with ease .

The software side of the house is just as busy . *Mario Kart World* has already shifted 14 million units , while *Donkey Kong Bananza* has found a solid audience with 4.25 million copies sold since the Switch 2 launch . These numbers pushed quarterly revenue to 803.32 billion yen ($5.2 billion) . While that is a staggering 86 percent increase over the previous year , it actually landed slightly below analyst expectations . Profit, however, told a better story: 159.93 billion yen ($1.03 billion), marking a 20 percent increase year-over-year .

The big question now is whether Nintendo can maintain this breakneck pace . Much of that momentum rests on the spring release calendar , specifically the launch of *Mario Tennis Fever* on February 12 and the highly anticipated *Pokemon Pokopia* in March .