#Switch Surpasses Wii, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Japan’s Best-Selling Game Ever

Wii was one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles ever, but Switch just managed to leap past it to become the company’s third best-selling system. The latest numbers come from Nintendo’s quarterly results, which have the Switch at 103.54 million units sold, putting it a hair above Wii’s already impressive lifetime sales of 101.63 million.

Switch still has a ways to go to reach the top and surpass the two champions. Nintendo’s most successful portables—Game Boy and DS—managed to move 118.69 million and 154.02 million units, respectively. There’s still time, though, because Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says the console is only in the middle of its lifecycle. 

Furukawa went on to say, “The Switch is ready to break a pattern of our past consoles that saw momentum weakening in their sixth year on the market and grow further.” 

2022 will see a bit of a slowdown thanks to chip shortages, however. Nintendo previously reduced plans to ship 30 million units by this March to 24 million. As of these quarterly results, though, the target projections have been lowered a bit further to 23 million. 

In addition to the hardware update, the quarterly results revealed some pretty amazing software statistics. During the period between October and December 2021, Animal Crossing: New Horizons crossed the 10 million units sold mark in Japan alone. That puts it way past the record of 6.81 million units for 1985’s Super Mario Bros., making it the best-selling video game ever in Japan.

Source: Nintendo via Game Informer

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.