Nintendo says Switch 2 has sold 17.37 million units as nine-month sales nearly double

Nintendo’s latest financial report shows a big jump in revenue, and the company is crediting a lot of that to Switch 2. For the nine months ending December 31, 2025, Nintendo reported net sales of ¥1.9 trillion ($12.3 billion), up 99.3% year-on-year, alongside operating profit of ¥300.4 billion ($1.9 billion), up 21.3%.

On the hardware side, Nintendo says Switch 2 has now sold 17.37 million units worldwide. That includes 7.01 million consoles sold in the three months ending December 31, 2025, which the company describes as the system’s best quarter so far, topping the 5.82 million it moved in its launch quarter.

Nintendo also pointed out that Switch 2 is tracking ahead of the original Switch over a comparable stretch of time. The original Switch hit 14.86 million units sold in the first nine months of Nintendo’s 2018 financial year after launching in March 2017. Switch 2 launched later in the year (June) and has still surpassed that pace.

Meanwhile, the original Switch is slowing down. Nintendo says it sold 3.25 million Switch units over the same nine-month period, a 66% year-on-year drop, bringing lifetime hardware sales to 155.37 million. Nintendo also reported 129 million annual players on Switch between January and December 2025, slightly down from 130 million in 2024.

Software-wise, Nintendo reports Switch 2 game sales at 37.93 million for the nine-month period, with 17.31 million sold in the three months ending December 31, 2025. The company also updated sales for a few Switch 2 titles, led by Mario Kart World at 14 million copies sold, followed by Donkey Kong Bananza (4.25 million) and the Switch 2 version of Pokémon Legends Z-A (3.89 million).