Tag: Sales Figures
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of June 2023
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe passes 55 million units sold
Nintendo has released its financial results for the first quarter of FY24, providing an updated view of the top ten best-selling Nintendo Switch games as of June 30th, 2023. Given that we've already reported on the incredible numbers achieved by
News Switch Hardware Sales Now Over 125 Million, PS2, Nintendo DS Target Still A Way Off
Feeling the burn
Nintendo has posted its end-of-year report for FY2023 and as of March 2023, the Switch family of systems has sold over 3 million since the last quarter, bringing the lifetime total number of units sold to a cool 125.62 million. Back in February the total stood at 122.55, which took sales past the milestones set by both the Game Boy...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of March 2023
A Wii U favourite returns
Nintendo has released its final financial report for the fiscal year ending March 2023, giving us an updated look at the best-selling games on Switch. With the last report back in February, we were impressed to see Pokémon Scarlet and Violet bursting into the top-ten list despite only one month of data being available for...
News Bayonetta 3 Has Sold Over 1 Million Units Since Launch
Kicking down the competition
Bayonetta 3 is the latest Switch exclusive to join the 1 million club. In Nintendo's latest financial report, the company reports that the long-awaited sequel from PlatinumGames just squeaked over the line with 1.04 million units sold. Launching early-ish into Q3, those sales figures are pretty decent for the Umbra...
News Mario Kart 8 Deluxe And Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Cross Major Sales Milestones
Zooming past 50 million and K.O.-ing 30
The latest Nintendo financial report is here, giving us a good old look at the company's sales figures up until the end of 2022. While this time around has been a big one for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and for the Switch itself, there has (predictably) been yet more success for the behemoth titles of Mario...
News Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Surpasses 20 Million Units Sold In Just Six Weeks
Gotta sell 'em all
Nintendo's nine-month earnings report is finally with us so we can now get a proper look at just how successful some of the Switch's recent games have been. Chief among our concerns this time around was Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. We knew that it was going to be a big hitter ever since that massive launch week, but the question...
News It's Official, Total Switch Sales Have Now Surpassed The Game Boy And PS4
Unit sales exceed 120 million
There's just no stopping the mighty Switch! Today, Nintendo has released its nine-month earnings report, officially confirming that the total hardware sales for the Switch have now exceeded the Game Boy, placing the hybrid console firmly in second place behind the Nintendo DS (oh, and it's also now outsold the...
News The Nintendo Switch Has Exceeded 114 Million Units Sold
Catching up on the Game Boy
As part of Nintendo's latest financial report detailing performance for Q2 of fiscal year ending March 2023, the company has confirmed that the Nintendo Switch has now sold a gargantuan 114.33 million units. Once again, however, Nintendo states that sales have declined year-on-year thanks to the ongoing semiconductor...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of June 2022
No major changes from last time
Nintendo's latest financial report is now live, and with it, we've got an updated list of the total sales figures for the best-selling Switch games. We say updated, but there's been absolutely no change between this quarter and last quarter in terms of placements! We're pretty sure that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal...
News LEGO Star Wars And Nintendo Switch Sports Top April's European Charts
Kirby still sells well in a quiet month
April has been a pretty quiet month on the Nintendo front, and that seems to have reflected in the sales across Europe. In the latest GSD data for the previous month, there was a 15% drop in console sales in the month of April compared to March — excluding the UK and Germany. However, this drop in sales...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of March 2022
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl overtake Let's Go!
Nintendo has just published its latest financial report, and one of the biggest highlights of it is seeing the total sales figures for the company's most popular games. And there are no newcomers or big surprises here. Once again, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is at the very top — will it ever...
News The Switch Was Europe's Best-Selling Console In March As Kirby Sucks Up Sales
Carby and the Switch are cruising through
March was a busy month for Nintendo. With several big releases such as Triangle Strategy, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's season pass kicking off with Wave 1. So it's perhaps no surprise that - even in the wake of Elden Ring - the Switch was Europe's best-selling co
News Konami's Mario And Animal Crossing Killer 'Momotaro Dentetsu' Surpasses 3.5 Million Sales
No wonder they won't make a new Castlevania!
Japan's love of Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! hasn't faded yet. It gained notoriety around here for beating the likes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for goodness sake! And it's Japan-exclusive, meaning we don't even get to see what the fuss is about. If...
News Nintendo Switch Led UK Console Sales In February, But Numbers Are Down Year-On-Year
Down by 30% compared to 2021
Another month has passed and the Nintendo Switch continues to outperform the competition in the UK thanks to ongoing supply constraints. Out of a total of 93,000 consoles sold during February, and while we don't know the exaxt cut, Switch took the lion's share of that figure. However, overall Switch sales were down by...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of December 2021
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Pokémon Shining Pearl break into the top 10
Nintendo has just published its latest financial report, and within it, you'll find total sales figures for its most popular games. If you've been following these updates closely for the past few years, it should come as no great shock to learn that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is...
News Nintendo Switch Was 2021's Best-Selling Console In Europe, The US And Japan
A dominant display
According to the latest sales data from GSD, Nintendo Switch was Europe's best-selling games console of 2021. This means that Nintendo's hybrid machine outsold its competitors across several major territories last year: Europe, the US, and the company's home country of Japan. The new data, shared by GamesIndustry.biz, confirms...
News US Pokémon Physical Sales Just Reached Their Highest Annual Total Since The Year 2000
2000 would have taken some beating
The Pokémon Company enjoyed another cracking year in 2021 with plenty of new releases and success stories to write home about, including this latest little fact regarding physical sales. The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella has revealed that in 2021, dollar sales of Pokémon franchise physical software in the US...
News And The US' Best-Selling Console Of 2021 Was... Nintendo Switch
Another strong year
Nintendo Switch was the best-selling games console of 2021 in the US, it's been confirmed. The news comes from The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, who has shared a thread of US sales stats covering the month of December. Piscatella notes that while the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 were "effectively tied" on dollar sales for the...
News Switch Just Enjoyed Its Best-Ever Hardware And Software Sales Week Across Europe
The previous record came in 2019
Back in November, it was revealed that the Nintendo Switch managed its best-ever sales week in the UK during the Black Friday madness. Now, Nintendo's revealed more about just how successful that week really was. The company has announced that more Switch consoles and games were sold in the UK and across Europe...
The NoA president shares launch sales figures
Nintendo's new Switch OLED console is off to a "solid start" according to Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser, following an impressive launch month which saw Switch regain its position as the best-selling games console in the current US market. In October, Nintendo sold 711,000 Switch consoles...
News Metroid Dread Had The Strongest Opening Month Of Any Metroid Game Ever In The US
A dreadfully good start
Early chart tracking suggested that Metroid Dread was enjoying a successful time at retail when it launched on Switch last month, but new sales data confirms that the game has actually had the best opening month for any game of the series to date (in the US, at least). The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella confirms that Dread...
News The Top Ten Best-Selling Games For Wii U, 3DS, Wii And DS (As Of September 2021)
How many of these do you own?
We've already seen an updated list of the top ten best-selling Nintendo Switch games, but what about the good old Wii and Wii U, and even the DS and 3DS? Naturally, sales for games on these older systems aren't what they used to be, but some copies continue to be picked up thanks to digital stores or the odd bit of...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of September 2021
How many of these do you own?
Nintendo has provided updated sales figures for its best-selling games on Switch, although the list is very familiar indeed. In fact, since the last update provided a few months ago, the entire top ten order has remained exactly the same with no newcomers squeezing their way in. Of course, each game's sales have...
News Nintendo Switch Has Now Sold 92.87 Million Units, And It's Catching The Wii
Although sales are down year-on-year
The Nintendo Switch has reached a grand total of 92.87 million hardware sales, Nintendo's latest financial report confirms. Nintendo reveals that it has shifted 8.28 million consoles between April and September 2021 (6.45 million of those being the original model, and 1.82 million being the Lite). Sales are...
News For The First Time In 33 Months, Switch Wasn't The US' Best-Selling Console In September
Still, 33 months ain't bad...
New US games sales data has revealed that the Switch's incredible streak as the country's best-selling console month after month has now come to an end. For the first time in 33 months, a console other than Nintendo Switch topped the US charts in September. As reported by The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, Sony's...
News Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Has Shipped More Than A Million Copies
Physical shipments and digital sales included
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town has now shipped more than one million copies worldwide, Marvelous has announced. The impressive figure includes confirmed shipments of physical copies to retailers and digital purchases from the Switch eShop, as well as sales on Steam, where the game launched...
News The Donkey Kong Series Has Surpassed 65 Million Sales Worldwide
As of March 2021
Nintendo has revealed that, as of March 2021, the Donkey Kong series of games have sold a whopping 65 million units worldwide. You probably know the story by now, but Donkey Kong was first brought to life by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto back in 1981, when the very first game in the series hit arcades. The game saw Jumpman, who...
News Stardew Valley Has Sold Over 15 Million Copies
That's a lot of turnips
After last week's news that Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is currently working on a new game, we can't be the only ones who ran to Google to figure out just how many copies of Stardew Valley he's sold in total. On Wikipedia, as of yesterday, the answer was ten million — but according to the presskit, the true figure is over...
News Nintendo's Mobile Income Holds Steady Thanks To Pokémon GO
Pokémon banks
Nintendo has published its quarterly financial results and revealed that its smartphone content business continues to do well, largely thanks to an increase in royalty income — essentially, increased income from the company's stake in Pokémon GO. While there was a slight decline of -0.6% in overall mobile-related income compared...
News In Just Five Days, Mario Golf: Super Rush Became The Second Best-Selling Game In The Series
Fore blimey!
Nintendo has provided its first official sales update for Mario Golf: Super Rush, and the figures show that our favourite plumber's latest outing is likely already his most successful yet. In its financial earnings report covering April through June 2021, Nintendo revealed that Mario Golf: Super Rush sold 1.34 million units worldwide...
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of June 2021
How many of these do you own?
Nintendo has provided updated sales figures for its best-selling games on Switch, giving us a great look at which titles have performed the best since the console first launched more than four years ago. It's a very familiar list, with most of the system's best-sellers holding their positions from previous reports...
News Switch Console Sales Hit 89 Million, Has Now Outsold PS3 And Xbox 360
Despite facing a year-on-year slump
The Nintendo Switch has reached a grand total of 89.04 million hardware sales, Nintendo's latest financial report confirms. Between April and June 2021, the system sold a total of 4.45 million units (3.31 original model, 1.14 million for the Lite) to help it close in on that 90 million milestone, although sales...
News Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Sells 500,000 Copies In Just Two Weeks
"We’re beyond ecstatic"
Serenity Forge and Team Salvato have revealed that Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!, which launched on Switch at the end of last month, has surpassed 500,000 sales in its first two weeks on the market. The milestone's a great step forward for publisher Serenity Forge, not least because the launch of the game marks the...
News Switch Was The Best-Selling Console In The US For The First Half Of 2021
Mario Golf: Super Rush takes third spot in June's software chart
The June 2021 NPD report has just been published, and as well as detailing figures for the month, it also sums up US gaming sales performance for the first six months of 2021. Despite the arrival of the Xbox Series X (and S) and Sony PlayStation 5, the Switch was the best-selling...
News Nintendo Switch Has Been The US' Best-Selling Console For 30 Months In A Row
Switch takes top prize in May
Nintendo Switch was the best-selling games console in the US in May, securing a 30th consecutive month (so that's two and a half years) at the top of the chart. The news comes from NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, who confirms that Switch was "the best-selling hardware platform in both units and dollars during the month of...
News Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin Dev Hoped It'd Sell 30k Copies - It Just Passed One Million
That's quite the difference
Marvelous Inc. has announced that Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has now surpassed one million sales worldwide, absolutely smashing the game's initial target. The publisher has shared a statement from the game's developer Edelweiss, which thanks players who've picked up and enjoyed the game. Surprisingly, Edelweiss reveals...
News Nintendo Switch Has Now Sold More Than 20 Million Units In Japan
Animal Crossing leads the software charts
The success of the Switch continues, as Nintendo surpasses 20 million sales of the console in its home country of Japan alone. As reported by Famitsu, the system's sales total ticked over the 20 million sales mark earlier today, 2nd June. The console initially launched on 3rd March 2017, meaning it has...
News Fitness Boxing 2 Surpasses 700,000 Sales, New Update Arrives Next Week
700,000 sales in under six months
Nintendo Switch's range of fitness games are going from strength to strength, as Imagineer reveals that Fitness Boxing 2 has now surpassed 700,000 sales since launching last December. The game hit the 500,000 copies milestone back in January, less than a month after it initially released, and while sales
News Momotaro Dentetsu Surpasses Three Million Sales On Switch, Yet It's Still Exclusive To Japan
Global launch when?
Anyone who follows our regular Japanese chart updates will likely remember Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!, Konami's super-popular train simulator exclusively available on Switch. The game was hoovering up sales like crazy for months, fending off the competition to remain in first place for eleven consecutive...
News Thanks To Switch, Nintendo Has Now Sold Over Half A Billion Handheld Consoles
Portable power
It's fair to say that Nintendo has been the king of the handheld console market for quite some time – and some would even argue that the Japanese company created the sector, via its insanely successful Game Boy system, launched in 1989. Nintendo hasn't had the market all to itself during the past few decades – NEC, SNK, Atari,...
Feature Nintendo Had A Spectacular Year, And May Have Big Plans
Monster profits, big R&D spend and broader moves into 'entertainment'
If you want a very brief summary of the current status of Nintendo's finances, they're extremely healthy. When any company posts profits in the billions of dollars, it's a sign of impressive health and long term stability. It's a boom that rather brings to mind the Wii / DS era,...
News Nintendo Reports Major Increases In Profits, But Anticipates A Drop This Year
The company is booming from strong Switch sales
Nintendo's annual financial report has plenty of good news for those that enjoy seeing the company flourish, with 2020 / 2021 delivering outstanding sales figures across the Nintendo Switch range and the broader business reporting monster profits once again. This article will focus on the money, but...
News Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Retains Its Crown In Nintendo Switch Best-Selling Games List
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is lining up a red shell, though
Thanks to today's financial earnings release, in which Nintendo revealed that the Switch has now surpassed GBA hardware sales, we now have an updated list of the Switch's best-selling titles. For a long time Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has reigned supreme at the top of this list, and amazingly...
News Animal Crossing Was The Best Selling Switch Game This Year, Unsurprisingly
A whopping 36 games sold a million copies or more on Switch
Nintendo has released its financial results for the fiscal year, and they confirm that a whopping 36 games passed one million sales on the system. Of this list of million-sellers, 22 of them are published by the platform holder and 14 belong to third-party publishers. Of course, many of...
News Nintendo Switch Sales Surpass Game Boy Advance As Demand Stays High
It just keeps on selling
Nintendo's freshly released yearly financial report has various interesting details, and in terms of the Nintendo Switch there's confirmation of another major milestone. With total sales of the Switch family now sitting at 84.59 million, it's passed the lifetime total of Game Boy Advance (81.5 million). It's another notable...
News Nintendo Switch Is Now The Sixth Best-Selling Video Game System In Japan
Expected to overtake lifetime PSP and PS2 sales this year
The Nintendo Switch is now officially the sixth best-selling video game system of all time in Japan, according to sales data provided by Famitsu (via Video Games Charts). It's apparently sold 19,410,000 units within this region - meaning it's surpassed the Famicom lifetime sales in Japan...
News Monster Hunter Rise Ships Four Million Units In Opening Weekend
A solid start, but couldn't match World
It may well have only launched on Friday, but Monster Hunter Rise is already performing very strongly indeed for Capcom. The publisher has today announced that its latest title has shipped an impressive four million units in its first three days on sale. It's worth highlighting the fact that 'shipped' and...
News Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Has Sold Over 700k Worldwide
Buyers are flocking like sheep
Holy cow! Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town might be the best-selling Story of Seasons title so far, although don't make us do the whole "what counts as a Story of Seasons game" thing right now because it is Friday and we are SLEEPY. Marvelous Japan, the publisher for Story of Seasons (or Bokujo Monogatari, as...
News Dead Cells Has Now Sold 5 Million Copies Worldwide
Recent Chinese launch is attributed to latest sales milestone
Dead Cells has been with us for nearly three years at this point, and its still going strong. Launched back in 2018, Motion Twin's action-platformer has received some tremendous post-launch support ever since, including January's Fatal Falls DLC. Having previously reached
News Super Bomberman R Passes Two Million Sales Worldwide
Previously hit one million back in 2018
For those of us who bought a Switch day one, you may remember Super Bomberman R being a key name in that launch line-up. Once a Switch exclusive, R made for a strong launch title, and it received some lengthy post-launch support, adding new stages and crossovers with fellow Konami franchises, like