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Nintendo Switch surpasses Game Boy to become the third best-selling console in history

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet push helps Nintendo Switch sell 8 million units over the holidays, making it the third best-selling console in history.

Nintendo Switch surpasses Game Boy to become the third best-selling console in history

Switch continues to make history. Nintendo published the financial results after its last quarter (the third of the fiscal year, which runs from October 1 to December 31). The company has confirmed that it has sold more than 8 million consoles during the same. A figure that is hard to believe when you consider that we are talking about a console with 5 years of life behind it. Although, as always, the numbers grow when there is a catalog that follows; in this case, Nintendo users do not have much to complain about. Bayonetta 3, Pokémon Scarlet & Violet... it was a good end of the year and it shows. The push has been such that the platform has overtaken the Game Boy in total sales to become the third best-selling console in the history of video games.

Considering that 2023 is the year of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and that we've even confirmed a new Nintendo Direct full of announcements, how far-fetched is it to think that Switch could reach the numbers of the Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2? It seems like an impossible task, but…

The best-selling consoles in history

PlatformRelease yearUnits sold
1. PlayStation 22002155 million
2. Nintendo DS2004154 million
3. Nintendo Switch2017122.55 million
4. Game Boy + Game Boy Color1989 and 1998118.69 million
5. PlayStation 42013117.2 million
6. PlayStation1994102.49 million
7. Wii2006101.63 million
8. PlayStation 3200687.4 million
9. Xbox 360200586 million
10. Game Boy Advance200581.51 million

11. PlayStation Portable (PSP)

200480 million
12. Nintendo 3DS201175.94 million
13. NES / Famicom198361.91 million
14. Xbox One201351 million
15. SNES / Famicom199049.1 million
16. Game & Watch198043.4 million
17. Nintendo 64199632.93 million
18. PlayStation 5202032.1 million
19. Sega Genesis / Mega Drive198830.75 million
20. Atari 2600197730 million
21. Xbox200124 million
22. GameCube200121.74 million
23. Wii U201213.5 million
24. PlayStation Vita201110-15 million
25. Sega Master System198610-13 million
26. Xbox Series X|S202012 million