Nintendo’s Switch becomes the third bestselling console ever

Enlarge / The Nintendo Switch (OLED model). (credit: Nintendo)

During its latest earnings report to investors, Nintendo revealed that its Switch game console sold 8.2 million units in the final three months of 2022, bringing the total number of Switch consoles sold to 122.55 million. That uptick slides the Switch—which launched in March of 2017—into the slot for the third-bestselling game console in history.

The two consoles ahead of it are the Nintendo DS handheld, in second place with 154 million total units sold, and Sony's PlayStation 2 home console, in first place by a hair at a bit more than 155 million units. The recent series of sales allowed it to surpass both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color, which together sold 118.69 million, and Sony's PlayStation 4 (just over 117 million) for the top spot.

So the Switch is a distant third. Truth be told, it might not be around long enough to make it to the second- or first-place milestones.

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