The Swap simply surpassed the DS as Nintendo’s best-selling console ever

The unique Swap simply turned Nintendo’s best-selling console ever with 155.37 million items as of December 31, 2025, overtaking the DS which offered 154.02 million items from 2004-2011. It was a part of a vacation surge that noticed the corporate transfer 7.01 million Swap 2s (and 17.37 million via Q3 of its fiscal yr), making it the “fastest-selling devoted video platform launched by Nintendo thus far,” the corporate mentioned in its earnings report.

Regardless of being supplanted by the Swap 2, the Swap retains promoting decently (1.36 million items in Q3 fiscal 2026), as a consequence of its comparatively cheap price. Nintendo reported final yr that it was simply trailing the DS in gross sales and would seemingly surpass it after Christmas. The Swap is now simply 5.27 million items behind Sony’s PS2, the best-selling console of all time — so Nintendo must preserve promoting it for at the very least a pair extra years to get the document.

The Swap 2, in the meantime, has been a gross sales machine. With excessive vacation gross sales that exceeded expectations, Nintendo ought to simply attain its 19 million sales goal for fiscal 2026 ending March 31 this yr. The corporate has already (simply) busted via its authentic gross sales forecast of 15 million consoles set earlier in 2025.

Recreation gross sales had been additionally sturdy, with Mario Kart World hitting 14 million items and Donkey Kong Bananza promoting 4.25 million for the reason that Swap 2’s launch. With all that, the corporate noticed 803.32 billion yen in gross sales for Q3 ($5.2 billion), up 86 p.c over final yr however a bit lower than anticipated, and 159.93 billion yen in revenue ($1.03 billion), 20 p.c larger than the identical interval final yr.

Whether or not the corporate can proceed that will depend upon the power of its upcoming recreation lineup. Two of these key titles are Mario Tennis Fever anticipated on February 12 and Pokemon Pokopia arriving in March.