We thought today may come, and right here it’s. In keeping with the newest knowledge from Circana (previously NPD), the Nintendo Swap has lastly surpassed the PlayStation 2’s lifetime gross sales in america.
The newest rating shake-up comes from Circana govt director and online game trade analyst Mat Piscatella on BlueSky, who famous that the Swap reached 46.6 million items bought within the US as of thirtieth November 2024. This was sufficient to push it forward of the PS2, regardless of the Swap’s year-on-year gross sales reducing by 3%.
Which means the Swap now sits in second on the checklist of best-selling gaming {hardware} within the US, crushed solely by the Nintendo DS.
This Swap milestone comes even supposing it was the second best-selling console within the US in November, being crushed by Sony’s PS5 in each unit and greenback gross sales.
Naturally, the worldwide numbers paint a really completely different image. On the final rely, Nintendo reported that the Swap had bought 146.04 million items globally, nonetheless placing it behind the DS, which sits at 154.02 million. Neither of these topples the PS2’s worldwide gross sales numbers, thoughts you, which Jim Ryan lately readjusted to “over 160 million”.
