Nintendo Switch Has Sold Over 20 Million Units in Japan According to Famitsu’s Estimates

Today the Japanese magazine Famitsu reported on its website that the Nintendo Switch has passed a sales milestone in Japan.

According to the report, the console has now sold-through to customers over 20 million units in the country. More precisely, it’s at 20,018,278 as of May 30.

Do keep in mind that this is an estimate by Famitsu likely based on aggregated data from retailers, so it shouldn’t be considered 100% official.

Famitsu also provides the local sales of the top-5 games for Switch as of May 23. Of course, they’re all first-party Nintendo games.

1. Animal Crossing New Horizon – 6,778,146
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,285,272
3. Pokémon Sword & Shield – 4,052,668
4. Splatoon 2 – 3,868,221
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 3,844,200

The Nintendo Switch has been extremely popular in Japan since its launch, causing months of shortages that continued well into the console’s life cycle and occasionally popped up again even at later timeframes.

If you’re more interested in worldwides sales. The console has shipped to retailers 84.59 million units as of March 31, with Nintendo’s estimate of sell-through to customers as of the same date at 81 million units.

According to Nintendo’s own projections, the console could ship 110.09 million units to retailers by March 2022 if the company manages to achieve its sales goals.

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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