
Nintendo has just published its latest financial report, and one of the biggest highlights of it is seeing the total sales figures for the company's most popular games. And there are no newcomers or big surprises here.
Once again, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is at the very top — will it ever not be? — having sold 45.33 million units since it launched. That will likely continue to grow as the Booster Course Pass is expanded. Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate still sit at second and third with 38.64 million units and 28.17 units sold respectively. It feels like very little will catch up to Mario Kart or Animal Crossing with over a 10 million difference in sales between third place's Ultimate and the cuddly life sim.
Otherwise, it's all pretty similar to last time. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl has continued to dominate, and it's now overtaken Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee! to be the second best-selling Pokémon game on the Switch.
We've listed the ten best-selling Switch games as of March 31, 2022 below! This data only looks at Nintendo-published titles. You can look back and the previous top ten here.
Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games (as of March 31, 2022):
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 45.33 million (up from 43.35 million)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 38.64 million (up from 37.62 million)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 28.17 million (up from 27.40 million)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 26.55 million (up from 25.80 million)
- Pokémon Sword and Shield - 24.27 million (up from 23.90 million)
- Super Mario Odyssey - 23.50 million (up from 23.02 million)
- Super Mario Party - 17.78 million (up from 17.39 million)
- Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - 14.65 million (up from 13.97 million)
- Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee! - 14.53 million (up from 14.33 million)
- Ring Fit Adventure - 14.09 million (up from 13.53 million)
The numbers above are worldwide sales and include retail, digital, and copies bundled with hardware all combined.
Think Mario Kart is always going to be king of the Switch? Do you think the current top ten will get a shake-up? Sound off in the comments.
[source nintendo.co.jp]
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Ring Fit Adventure has been a bit of a success story. The rest are just the popular series' that you'd expect to see dominate these lists. Some really good games there as well as some garbage.
Let's Go released in November 2018, over 3 years ago.
BDSP meanwhile came out in November 2021. 7 MONTHS ago.
Wow and zers.
Always a joy to see a 3D Zelda game which were never the hugest sellers back then outselling a big Pokemon game. Proves that it can pay off when you put a lot of effort into a game
@Fizza In regard to the sales numbers it's actually only 5 months since those numbers are as of March 31st
Arceus not being here while all the mediocre Pokemon titles are is... a bummer but unfortunately not surprising.
Despite I like some of 1st party Switch games such as ACNH, ARMS, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, etc but I still prefer 3rd party games as they have more diversity in genre.
Fun fact: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now outsold Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 7 combined.
Pokémon Brilliant Diamon/Shining Pearl is also the best-selling Pokémon remake ever. Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is a close 2nd.
@westman98 That BDSP stat is sad as they are also by far the worst remakes.
Ugh.
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond was painfully low effort, good thing I got it used, and resold it for a profit. Not buying any new Pokemon stuff, though I enjoyed what little I played of a borrowed copy of Archeus.
Only two games I don't have off of this list are Super Mario Party and Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu. I have to admit that I don't like BD/SP as much as I'd had hoped, the rest of the games are all top notch and I'd recommend them to anyone getting a Switch.
Wow massive kudos to Ring Fit Adventure, the little fitness game that could!
Never would have suspected it to be one of the Switch's best selling games when it was announced!
@dimi I’m pretty sure Nintendo only reports on their 1st party games in their financial meetings, so there would not be any 3rd party games on this list regardless of sales numbers…
I REALLY hope Captain Toad has sold well on Switch...it really deserves to but feels like it has been overlooked by Switch players.
@Toads-Friend The majority of the players must have already played the 3DS or Wii U version if that's the case with the exception of the DLC of course.
Is there a full list of all First Party Titles? Be interesting to see where everything is in terms of Sales.
@Rambler ok thanks!
Don't think that Arceus can crack this top 10 though
Odyssey and BotW figures always seem rather low to me
Pretty wild how some of these evergreen titles still tend to sell at least 1/2 a million - 2 million units per quarter.
Arceus is right behind too!
So shocked to see Pokemon still selling so much...
@tsdenizen It's not terribly far behind at 12.64 million. But the folks who thought it would outsell Sw/Sh... Well, there ya go.
"Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games (as of March 31, 2021):"
I'd be curious to see the results for the last year as well.
@Magi_H The Switch version of Captain Toad is the best selling version.
Newer releases are bound to bump Lets go and ring fit off the list in the coming months. Legends Arceus' inclusion is nigh-inevitable
@tsdenizen sales are updated as of march 2022, legends had only two months on the market, at the end of the year it will easily enter the top10, chill
@popey1980
Well Zelda games have always lagged in sales behind all things Mario and Pokemon. One thing to consider though is Zelda was a launch title so it was initially being sold against a zero/new user base. I think for a Zelda game it has trashed all previous entries sales wise. MarioO does surprise me a little bit because its Mario and its an incredible game, and Mario is still popular enough for MParty to sell close to 20M, but Odessey has barely beat it out? So yeah that is a bit suspect but hey maybe peeps just aren't into the 3D platforming like they used to be. Its been a long time (ps3_) since $ony released a Sly Cooper game so maybe run and jump games are a thing of the past....LoL...I hope not but really what has anybody put out other than Psyconauts (great game) recently?
@Magi_H
@Toads-Friend
I only ever played it on Switch. It's fun! Especially as a little palette cleanser between deeper games.
Nice to see I'm not the only one having fun with the diamond/pearl. Bite us.
WOW! Considering most first party Nintendo games go for between $35-60 a pop. That's like $2 Billion in revenue from just MarioKart8!
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