Though it was lastly changed final yr by the brand new Swap 2, the orginal change isn’t completed simply but. Many current Swap video games (and a handful of main updates, just like the one for Animal Crossing) have been launched in each Swap and Swap 2 editions, and Nintendo continues to promote all editions of the unique console as entry-level methods for individuals who can’t pay $450 for a Swap 2.
The 9-year-old Swap’s continued availability has helped it clear a milestone, in accordance with the corporate’s third-quarter monetary outcomes (PDF). As of December 31, 2025, Nintendo says the Swap “has reached the very best gross sales quantity of any Nintendo {hardware}” with a complete of 155.37 million models bought, surpassing the unique DS’s lifetime complete of 154.02 million models. The console has bought 3.25 million models in Nintendo’s fiscal 2026 to this point, together with 1.36 million models over the vacations. These consoles have bought regardless of value hikes that Nintendo introduced in August of 2025, citing “market circumstances.”
That makes the Swap the second-bestselling recreation console of all time, simply three years after it grew to become the third-bestselling game console of all time. The one frontier left for the Swap to beat is Sony’s PlayStation 2, which Sony says bought “over 160 million models” over its lengthy life. At its present gross sales price (Nintendo predicts it should promote roughly 750,000 Switches within the subsequent quarter), it could take the Swap one other couple of years to cross that line, however these numbers are more likely to taper off as we get deeper into the Swap 2 period.
