Although Famitsu’s weekly Japanese sales reports indicated that the Nintendo Switch needed to sell an additional 900,000 units to become the best-selling gaming device in Japanese history, the official numbers from Nintendo are different.
As of last December 31, Nintendo had sold 33.34 million units of the Nintendo Switch device, thus surpassing the total sales of the Nintendo DS device, whose sales stopped at 32.99 million units. The Switch is still able to expand the difference in the coming months until the release of its successor, and we do not know whether we will see it. Another device in the future will break this record. Here is a list of the 10 best-selling gaming devices in Japanese history:
Nintendo Switch – 33.34m
Nintendo DS – 32.99m
Game Boy – 32.47m
Nintendo 3DS – 25.26m
Playstation 2 – 21.98m
Playstation Portable – 19.69m
Famicom – 19.35m
Playstation – 18.86m
Super Famicom – 17.17m
Game Boy Advance – 16.96m