Nintendo released its latest quarterly earnings report today for the six-month period that ended on September 30, revealing a number of new details about the health of the company’s business, including updated sales figures for the Switch and Switch 2. The original Switch has now sold 154.01 million units since it launched in 2017, and that’s fairly close to the PS2’s lifetime record of 160 million.
Will the Switch be able to catch the PS2? Probably not, says one analyst. Even so, the Switch is about to pass the Nintendo DS (154.02 million units sold) to become Nintendo’s best-selling platform ever. It needs just 10,000 more sales to match the DS. This has no doubt already happened, as Nintendo’s numbers run through September 30, and that’s already more than a month ago. However, this won’t be official until Nintendo releases its next earnings report in February 2026 or sooner if the company opts to make an announcement outside of its scheduled earnings releases.
Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners was recently asked if he believes the Switch can surpass the PS2 for lifetime sales, and he replied, “Probably not.”
While Nintendo has boosted its sales projections for the Switch 2 from 15 million to 19 million for the current fiscal year, the company is downgrading its outlook for the original Switch. The company previously said it expected to sell 4.5 million units of the console during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026. However, the company is now modeling sales of 4 million units.
For the six-month period ended September 30, Nintendo sold 4.72 million original Switch consoles, which was down 60% compared to the same period last year. Sales of the original model were expected to slump, of course, as Nintendo just recently launched the Switch 2 in June 2025.
The Switch 2, meanwhile, has now sold more than 10.36 million units as of September 30. It is the fastest-selling console ever over its first four months, outpacing the sales of other platforms over a similar period of time, including the PS5 (7.8 million), PS4 (7.6 million), Wii (5.8 million), DS (5.3 million), and original Switch (4.74 million).