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title: "Nintendo Switch – Lifetime sales 55.7 million, 21 million past year"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-lifetime-sales-557-million-21-million-past-year/"
description: "Nintendo published their fiscal results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020. In total, the console family sold a whopping 21.03 million units"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-05-10 12:23:50"
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Nintendo Switch - Lifetime sales 55.7 million, 21 million past year | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo Switch – Lifetime sales 55.7 million, 21 million past year](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-lifetime-sales-557-million-21-million-past-year.jpeg "Nintendo Switch – Lifetime sales 55.7 million, 21 million past year")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-lifetime-sales-557-million-21-million-past-year.jpeg)Nintendo published their fiscal results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020. In total, the console family sold a whopping 21.03 million units during the past fiscal period – which marks a 24% increase in sales from the previous fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.

## [](#total-lifetime-sales)Total lifetime sales

Overall, this means that the lifetime sales of Switch and Switch Lite reached a grand total of 55.77 million units.As for software sales, Nintendo Switch software moved 168.72 million units in the last fiscal year, a 42.3% boost over the previous fiscal year.

This brings the Nintendo Switch’s lifetime software sales to a total of 356.24 million units!

### [](#all-lifetime-sales-march-31st-2020)All Lifetime sales – March 31st 2020

**Nintendo Switch**
Hardware: 55.77million units
Software: 356.24million units

**Nintendo 3DS**
Hardware: 75.77million units
Software: 383.11million units

**Wii U**
Hardware: 13.56million units
Software: 103.10million units

**Wii**
Hardware: 101.63 million units
Software: 921.69 million unitsNintendo DS

**Nintendo DS**
Hardware: 154.02 million units
Software: 948.69 million units

**Game Boy Advance**
Hardware 81.51 million units
Software 377.42 million units

**Game Boy**
Hardware 118.69 million units
Software 501.11 million units

**Nintendo GameCube**
Hardware 21.74 million units
Software 208.57 million units

**Nintendo 64**
Hardware 32.93 million units
Software 224.97 million units

**Super Family Computer/SNES**
Hardware 49.10 million units
Software 379.06 million units

**Family Computer/NES**
Hardware 61.91 million units
Software 500.01 million units

The numbers shown above are worldwide consolidated sales in units life-to-date.

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