While many Nintendo fans are still awaiting any sort of news on the Switch successor that seems likely to be unveiled this year, the Japanese publisher is more than happy to look back on 2023 as a successful year across both hardware and software.
Nintendo closes out 2023 behind strong sales numbers for Mario Wonder & RPG
To the surprise of no one, Nintendo had a solid holiday season as the company shared in its recent quarterly earnings report. Between October 1 to August 17, 2025, Nintendo sold an additional seven million Switch consoles, bringing the total lifetime sales of the platform to an astonishing 139.36 million. The hybrid platform still has a ways to go if it wants to catch up to the 154 million units of the Nintendo DS, or the 155 million units of the PlayStation 2, but after nearly seven years on the market, Switch has more than proven itself as a favorite for gamers of all types.
During that same three-month period, Nintendo launched two new Mario games: the sidescrollerSuper Mario Bros. Wonderand the SNES remakeSuper Mario RPG. The developer had previously shared that Wonder was off to a promising start with4.3 million copies sold in its first two weeks, but we now know that nearly twelve million total copies of the game were purchased in 2023. Super Mario RPG also had a quality debut with 3.14 million copies sold since it launched in November, which means it has already surpassed the total lifetime sales of the original SNES game. Nintendo’s other two prominent 2023 titles,The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomandPikmin 4, closed out the year with 20.28 million units and 3.33 million units sold, respectively.
Check out the updated list of the best-selling Switch games to date below:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe– 60.58m
Animal Crossing: New Horizons– 44.79m
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate– 33.67m
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild– 31.61m
Super Mario Odyssey– 27.65m
Pokémon Sword & Shield– 26.17m
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet– 24.36m
Super Mario Party– 20.34m
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 20.28m
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.20m
Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
It’s no exaggeration to say that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is one of the greatest Mario titles to come out in the last fifteen years.
