The ten best-selling Nintendo Switch games, ranked by Nintendo's own sales figures as of June 30, 2026: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe leads at 71.53 million units.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling Nintendo Switch game ever, at 71.53 million units. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is second at 50.29 million and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate third at 38.14 million. The ranking uses Nintendo's official Top Selling Title Sales Units for the original Switch, as reproduced on Wikipedia, as of June 30, 2026.
The Nintendo Switch is one of the biggest platforms in gaming history: as of June 30, 2026, Nintendo had shipped 156.59 million Switch consoles, with over 1.5 billion copies of games shipped for the platform. This list ranks the ten individual games that have sold the most on it. Every figure comes from a single Nintendo report with a single as-of date, so the gaps between entries are directly comparable. Nintendo's own titles dominate, partly because Nintendo is the publisher that reports per-title Switch sales every quarter.
The best-selling game on the Switch by a wide margin, at 71.53 million units as of June 30, 2026. That is more than 21 million units ahead of the second-place title.
Nintendo's social simulation game has sold 50.29 million units on the Switch, the only other title above 50 million.
The Switch's best-selling fighting game, at 38.14 million units.
Released on the Switch's launch day, Breath of the Wild has sold 34.06 million units on the platform, the most of any Zelda game on Switch.
The best-selling platformer on the Switch, at 30.80 million units.
Game Freak's paired role-playing releases have sold 28.46 million units combined, the highest figure for any Pokémon game on the Switch.
Game Freak's 2019 paired release sits just behind Scarlet and Violet, at 27.26 million units combined.
The second Zelda title in the top ten has sold 22.71 million units on the Switch.
The only party game in the top ten, developed by NDcube, at 21.36 million units.
The platformer rounds out the top ten at 19.10 million units, just ahead of Nintendo Switch Sports (18.32 million as of March 31, 2026), the next-highest title on the source page.
| # | Name | Switch release | Genre | Developer | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | April 28, 2017 | Kart racing | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
| 2 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons | March 20, 2020 | Social simulation | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
| 3 | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | December 7, 2018 | Fighting | Bandai Namco Studios / Sora Ltd. | Nintendo |
| 4 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | March 3, 2017 | Action-adventure | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
| 5 | Super Mario Odyssey | October 27, 2017 | Platformer | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
| 6 | Pokémon Scarlet and Violet | November 18, 2022 | Role-playing | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company / Nintendo |
| 7 | Pokémon Sword and Shield | November 15, 2019 | Role-playing | Game Freak | The Pokémon Company / Nintendo |
| 8 | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | May 12, 2023 | Action-adventure | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
| 9 | Super Mario Party | October 5, 2018 | Party | NDcube | Nintendo |
| 10 | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe | January 11, 2019 | Platformer | Nintendo EPD | Nintendo |
Games are ranked by units sold, in millions, from Nintendo's investor-relations table 'Top Selling Title Sales Units' for Nintendo Switch, as reproduced in Wikipedia's 'List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games'. All ten figures carry the same as-of date, June 30, 2026; rank 1 is the highest figure. The page describes its list as Switch games that have 'sold or shipped' at least one million copies, and these ten figures are Nintendo's reported 'sales units'. Paired releases sold as two versions (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Pokémon Sword and Shield) are counted as one entry, as Nintendo reports them. Only titles in Nintendo's official table are ranked: figures from other publishers or from other dates are not mixed in. The page notes that most publishers other than Nintendo do not share per-console sales, so the list consists mostly of Nintendo-published titles. Minecraft, for example, appears on the page only with a 6.77 million partial physical-sales figure (France, Japan and Spain, as of May 17, 2026) rather than a worldwide Switch total, so it is not ranked. The original Switch only: Nintendo Switch 2 games are covered on a separate Wikipedia list. The page does not say whether Nintendo's figures include sales of Nintendo Switch 2 Editions of these games.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, at 71.53 million units as of June 30, 2026, according to Nintendo's Top Selling Title Sales Units figures as reproduced on Wikipedia.
This list ranks only the titles in Nintendo's official sales table, so every figure shares one source and one date. Minecraft is published by Mojang (Xbox Game Studios in Japan), not Nintendo, and the Wikipedia page gives it only a partial physical-sales figure of 6.77 million (France, Japan and Spain) rather than a worldwide Switch total.
No. It covers the original Nintendo Switch; Switch 2 games have their own Wikipedia list. The source page does not state whether Nintendo's figures for these ten titles include sales of their Nintendo Switch 2 Editions.
As of June 30, 2026, Nintendo had shipped 156.59 million Nintendo Switch consoles, with over 1.5 billion copies of games shipped for the platform, according to the Wikipedia page citing Nintendo's investor-relations data.
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