What this is
Nintendo Switch consoles shipped worldwide to December 2022, the quarter Scarlet/Violet launched: 122.55m.
How it’s built
- Nintendo's figure, as reported by the games-sales site VGChartz.
What we assumed
- Shipments, not consoles in use.These are units shipped to shops; some are unsold, replaced or no longer played.
Sanity check
A cumulative count of consoles shipped since launch: the base available when the game launched, not the number of active players.
Where it comes from
The line in the source
Shipment figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 122.55 million units