The original Nintendo Switch has surpassed the DS in sales, officially reaching a milestone as Nintendo’s best-selling video game system of all time. With 155.37 million units sold as of the last week of December 2025, the Switch only trails Sony’s PlayStation 2 for the all-time record.
This achievement was long expected, with the Switch shown to be inching toward the DS’s numbers in Nintendo’s last quarterly earnings report. Nintendo DS, which was released in 2004 and has long since been discontinued, sold 154.02 million units in its lifetime.
For the Switch to dethrone the PS2, it’ll have to overtake its astounding figure of over 160 million consoles sold–if Nintendo can somehow squeeze out more than 5 million sales.
