This is the list of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games in millions of copies sold from both physical and digital download sales, as of September 30, 2020. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the system's current best-selling game. The Nintendo Switch system has sold 68.30 million units (combined with Lite sales) worldwide since its launch in March 2017.
Sales data are according to Nintendo's official IR data (unless otherwise noted).
Note: All sales data are updated once every three months.
Contents
List
| Title | Release date | Sales (millions) | Developer(s) | Publisher | Ref(s) |
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April 28, 2017 | 28.99 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
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March 20, 2020 | 26.04 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
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December 7, 2018 | 21.10 | Bandai Namco Sora Ltd. |
Nintendo | |
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March 3, 2017 (launch) | 19.74 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
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November 15, 2019 | 19.02 | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company Nintendo |
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October 27, 2017 | 18.99 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
 
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November 16, 2018 | 12.49 | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company Nintendo |
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October 5, 2018 | 12.10 | Nd Cube | Nintendo | |
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July 21, 2017 | 11.27 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
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January 11, 2019 | 8.32 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | |
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October 31, 2019 | 7.83 | Next Level Games | Nintendo | [1] |
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October 18, 2019 | 5.84 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | [1] |
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June 28, 2019 | 5.48 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | [2] |
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September 18, 2020 | 5.21 | Nintendo | Nintendo | [1] |
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September 20, 2019 | 4.38 | Grezzo Nintendo EPD |
Nintendo | [2] |
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March 3, 2017 (launch) | 3.18 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | [3] |
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June 22, 2018 | 3.06 | Camelot Software Planning | Nintendo | [3] |
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November 20, 2020 | 3 | Omega Force | Nintendo Koei Tecmo (JP) |
[4] |
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March 16, 2018 | 2.93 | HAL Laboratory | Nintendo | [3] |
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July 26, 2019 | 2.87 | Intelligent Systems Koei Tecmo |
Nintendo | [2] |
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July 17, 2020 | 2.82 | Intelligent Systems | Nintendo | [1] |
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May 4, 2018 | 2.65 | Retro Studios | Nintendo | [3] |
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August 29, 2017 | 2.5 | Ubisoft | Ubisoft Nintendo (JP) |
[5][6] |
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June 16, 2017 | 2.38 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | [3] |
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May 11, 2017 | 2.06 | 4J Studios Ltd. | Mojang | [7][8] |
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July 13, 2018 | 2+ | Square Enix | Nintendo Square Enix (JP) |
[9] |
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December 1, 2017 | 1.92 | Monolith Soft | Nintendo | [3] |
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March 29, 2019 | 1.84 | Good-Feel | Nintendo | [3] |
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June 5, 2020 | 1.81 | NDcube | Nintendo | [1] |
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July 13, 2018 | 1.44 | Nintendo Software Technology | Nintendo | [3] |
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May 29, 2020 | 1.4 | Monolith Soft | Nintendo | [1] |
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April 20, 2018 | 1.39 | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo | [10][3] |
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March 6, 2020 | 1.26 | Spike Chunsoft | Nintendo The Pokémon Company |
[2] |
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September 22, 2017 | 1.16 | Bandai Namco | Nintendo The Pokémon Company (JP) |
[11] |
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August 30, 2019 | 1.08 | PlatinumGames | Nintendo | [2] |
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July 19, 2019 | 1.08 | Team Ninja | Nintendo | [2] |
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October 20, 2017 | 1+ | Omega Force Team Ninja |
Nintendo Koei Tecmo (JP) |
[12] |
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March 3, 2017 (launch) | 1+ | Konami HexaDrive |
Konami | [13] |
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December 14, 2017 | 1+ | Devolver Digital | Dodge Roll | [14] |
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July 19, 2018 | 1+ | Bandai Namco Studios | Bandai Namco Entertainment | [15] |
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December 8, 2018 | 1+ | Imagineer | Nintendo Imagineer (JP) |
[16] |
Sales by region
Below lists the games that have sold 1 million or more per specific region.
Japan
| Title | Release date | Sales (millions) |
Publisher | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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March 20, 2020 | 6.01 | Nintendo | [7] |
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December 8, 2018 | 3.88 | Nintendo | [7] |
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November 15, 2019 | 3.8 | Nintendo The Pokémon Company |
[7] |
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July 21, 2017 | 3.6 | Nintendo | [7] |
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April 28, 2017 | 3.27 | Nintendo | [7] |
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October 27, 2017 | 2.13 | Nintendo | [17] |
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October 18, 2019 | 1.84 | Nintendo | [7] |
 
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November 16, 2018 | 1.74 | Nintendo | [18] |
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March 3, 2017 | 1.68 | Nintendo | [7] |
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October 5, 2018 | 1.6 | Nintendo | [7] |
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May 11, 2017 | 1.56 | Mojang | [7] |
United States
| Title | Release date | Sales (millions) |
Publisher | Ref(s) |
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April 28, 2017 | 5+ | Nintendo | [19] |
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October 27, 2017 | 4.7 | Nintendo | [19] |
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March 3, 2017 | 4+ | Nintendo | [19] |
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December 8, 2018 | 3+ | Nintendo | [19] |
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November 16, 2018 | 2+ | Nintendo | [19] |
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November 15, 2019 | 2+ | Nintendo | [20] |
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October 5, 2018 | 1.4 | Nintendo | [19] |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2nd Quarter Results Ending March 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Period Ending March 2020 (PDF)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 2020 CESA Games White Papers. ISBN 978-4-902346-42-8. (For Labo - Variety Kit sales is 1.31 million)
- ↑ Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity surpasses 3 million copies sold (Famitsu) (Japanese) Date: November 24, 2020.
- ↑ Mario + Rabbids On Nintendo Switch Has Sold More Than Two Million Copies Date: September 1, 2017. Author: Liam Doolan.
- ↑ Nintendo Switch sales in Europe passes 10m (gamesindustry.biz) Date: October 10, 2019. Author: Marie Dealessandri.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 Famitsu software sales (11/16/20 – 11/22/20) – Top 30 (Nintendo Everything) Date: November 26, 2020.
- ↑ Nintendo Switch sales in Europe pass 10m (gamesindustry.biz) Date: October 10, 2019. Author: Marie Dealessandri. Minecraft's EU sales 500,000
- ↑ Nintendo Europe Twitter Post: "To celebrate 2 million copies sold..." Date: March 18, 2020.
- ↑ VARIETY - Nintendo Sold 1.39M 'Nintendo Labo' Kits Since April Launch Date: July 31, 2018. Author: Brian Crecente.
- ↑ Super Mario Odyssey Passes The 10 Million Sold Marker (Nintendo Life) Date: April 26, 2018. Author: Damien McFerran.
- ↑ Koei Tecmo Financial Report (in Japanese only) (pg. 2; sec. #1) April 2018
- ↑ Super Bomberman R Hits One Million Worldwide Sales, Konami Celebrates With Bungee Jump (Nintendo Life) Date: August 2, 2018. Author: Ryan Craddock.
- ↑ Enter the Gungeon Sells 1 Million on Switch with Physical Edition on the way (Hardcore Gamer) Date: March 3, 2019. Author: Kirstin Swalley.
- ↑ "TAIKO NO TATSUJIN SELLS 1 MILLION" (Japanese Nintendo) Date: July 3, 2020.
- ↑ Fitness Boxing has now sold 1,000,000 copies worldwide (My Nintendo News) Date: September 8, 2020.
- ↑ Famitsu software sales (10/19/20 – 10/25/20) – Top 30 (Nintendo Everything) Date: October 29, 2020.
- ↑ Famitsu software sales (8/17/20 - 8/23/20) – Top 30 (Nintendo Everything) Date: August 27, 2020.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 Nintendo Switch is the Fastest-Selling Video Game System of This Generation (Business Wire) Date: December 18, 2018.
- ↑ Pokemon Sword and Shield sales go big for launch (SlashGear) Date: November 21, 2019. Author: Eric Abent.
External links
- Nintendo Sales Data - Top-Selling Nintendo Switch Title Units
- Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Period Ending March 2019 (PDF)
- Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Period Ending June 2019
- Nintendo Fiscal Year Earnings Period Ending September 2019
See also
- List of Nintendo Switch games
- List of best-selling Wii U games
- List of best-selling Wii games
- List of best-selling Nintendo 3DS games
- List of best-selling Nintendo DS games
- List of best-selling GameCube games
- List of best-selling Nintendo 64 games
- List of best-selling Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
- List of best-selling Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom Disk System games
- List of best-selling Mario games
- List of best-selling video game franchises
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