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title: "Sales overtake 3DS with almost 80 million consoles shipped worldwide"
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description: "Nintendo has shared sales details for their current platform and they confirmed that the Nintendo Switch already overtaken the immensely successful Nintendo 3DS."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2021-02-03 18:45:31"
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Sales overtake 3DS with almost 80 million consoles shipped worldwide | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Sales overtake 3DS with almost 80 million consoles shipped worldwide](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/sales-overtake-3ds-with-almost-80-million-consoles-shipped-worldwide.jpg "Sales overtake 3DS with almost 80 million consoles shipped worldwide")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/sales-overtake-3ds-with-almost-80-million-consoles-shipped-worldwide.jpg)The Nintendo Switch is an immensely successful system for Nintendo coming of the back of the Wii U.

Nintendo has shared sales details for their current platform and they confirmed that the Nintendo Switch already overtaken the immensely successful Nintendo 3DS.

## [](#sales-numbers-tell-a-lot)Sales numbers tell a lot

Of the total 79.87 million units have been shipped worldwide. Nintendo says they shipped 24.1 million units over nine months, which is a rise of 36% compared with the same period the year prior.

 **Fiscal year ending March 31st sales:**

- 16.7 million Nintendo Switch consoles sold
- 7.3 million were the Switch Lite device
- Software sales reached 176.1 million units, a rise of 43% over the year before

### [](#best-selling-nintendo-platforms)Best-selling Nintendo platforms:

1. Nintendo DS (154 million)
2. Nintendo Wii (101.6 million)
3. Game Boy (118.7 million)
4. Game Boy Advance (81.5 million)
5. Nintendo Switch (79.87 million)

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