Switch is Nintendo’s best-selling home console with over 114 million units sold lifetime

Nintendo has released its financial results for the six months ending September 30. It finds that the company achieved net sales of ¥657 billion ($4.5 billion).

During the reported six monthsthe Switch family of systems sold 6.7 million units, bringing the lifetime total to 114.3 million units.

Broken down, the standard Switch sold 2.23 million units, Switch OLED sold 3.53 million total, and Switch Lite sold 92,000 units during the period.

Nintendo said hardware units sold were down 19% year over year to a reported 6.7 million units due to factors including continued shortages of semiconductor and other component supplies.

In software sales, every title released during this period sold well, with Splatoon 3 and Nintendo Switch Sports getting off to a strong start with sales of 7.9 million and 6.15 million units, respectively. Mario Strikers: Battle League sold 2.17 million units, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 moved 1.72 million units.

Additionally, stable sales of titles released through the end of previous fiscal years were reported. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 3.07 million units (per cumulative sales of 48.4 million units) and Kirby and the Forgotten Land moved 2.6 million units (with cumulative sales of 5.3 million units), making it the best-selling Kirby title to date.

Sales of titles from other software publishers also continued to grow steadily, bringing the total number of titles sold by the million during this period to 15, including titles from other software publishers. As a result of these factors, total software sales grew 1.6% year-on-year to 95.4 million units.

As for the digital business, packaged software download versions of Nintendo Switch sold well and sales of Nintendo Switch Online also increased. In addition, add-on content sales increased not only for Nintendo titles but also for titles from other software publishers, along with sales of download-only titles, helping to boost digital sales to ¥189 billion ( $1.3 billion) 30% more year-over-year.