The Change simply surpassed the DS as Nintendo’s best-selling console ever

The unique Change simply grew to become Nintendo’s best-selling console ever with 155.37 million models as of December 31, 2025, overtaking the DS which offered 154.02 million models from 2004-2011. It was a part of a vacation surge that noticed the corporate transfer 7.01 million Change 2s (and 17.37 million via Q3 of its fiscal 12 months), making it the “fastest-selling devoted video platform launched by Nintendo thus far,” the corporate mentioned in its earnings report.

Regardless of being supplanted by the Change 2, the Change retains promoting decently (1.36 million models in Q3 fiscal 2026), resulting from its comparatively low cost value. Nintendo reported final 12 months that it was simply trailing the DS in gross sales and would probably surpass it after Christmas. The Change is now simply 5.27 million models behind Sony’s PS2, the best-selling console of all time — so Nintendo must hold promoting it for not less than a pair extra years to get the report.

The Change 2, in the meantime, has been a gross sales machine. With excessive vacation gross sales that exceeded expectations, Nintendo ought to simply attain its 19 million gross sales objective for fiscal 2026 ending March 31 this 12 months. The corporate has already (simply) busted via its authentic gross sales forecast of 15 million consoles set earlier in 2025.

Sport gross sales have been additionally sturdy, with Mario Kart World hitting 14 million models and Donkey Kong Bananza promoting 4.25 million for the reason that Change 2’s launch. With all that, the corporate noticed 803.32 billion yen in gross sales for Q3 ($5.2 billion), up 86 p.c over final 12 months however a bit lower than anticipated, and 159.93 billion yen in revenue ($1.03 billion), 20 p.c increased than the identical interval final 12 months.

Whether or not the corporate can proceed which will rely on the power of its upcoming sport lineup. Two of these key titles are Mario Tennis Fever anticipated on February 12 and Pokemon Pokopia arriving in March.