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title: "Nintendo – Top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games"
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description: "Nintendo has updated the sales numbers for its best-selling Nintendo Switch games up until September 2022."
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Nintendo - Top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo – Top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-top-10-best-selling-nintendo-switch-games.jpeg "Nintendo – Top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-top-10-best-selling-nintendo-switch-games.jpeg)Nintendo has updated the sales numbers for its best-selling Nintendo Switch games up until September 2022.

And it looks like Animal Crossing: New Horizons is catching up to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which was previously unstoppable. At 48.41 million units sold, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still the best-selling Nintendo Switch game, and Animal Crossing: New Horizon has sold 40.17 million units around the world. By a wide margin, these two games are the most popular ones on Nintendo’s current platform. Nintendo also said that 7.9 million copies of Splatoon 3 have been sold and that Kirby and the Forgotten Land has sold 5.27 million copies, making it the best-selling Kirby game of all time.

## [](#top-10-best-selling-nintendo-switch-games-september-2022)Top 10 Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games (September 2022)

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 48.41 million (up from 46.82 million)
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 40.17 million (up from 39.38 million)
3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 29.53 million (up from 28.82 million)
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 27.79 million (up from 27.14 million)
5. Pokémon Sword and Shield – 25.37 million (up from 24.50 million)
6. Super Mario Odyssey – 24.40 million (up from 23.93 million)
7. Super Mario Party – 18.35 million (up from 18.06 million)
8. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl – 14.92 million (up from 14.79 million)
9. Ring Fit Adventure – 14.87 million (up from 14.54 million
10. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! & Let’s Go, Eevee! – 14.81 million (up from 14.66 million)

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