After just ten months on the market, the Nintendo Switch obliterated the lifetime sales of the Wii U. Today, the consolemaker confirmed that the Switch has left another Nintendo platform in the dust.
Nintendo sold 21.74 million GameCube consoles between 2001 and 2007, but it’s been surpassed by the Switch, which can now lay claim to a worldwide tally of 22.86 million consoles sold. Next on the hit list is the Nintendo 64, which sold 32.93 million consoles between 1996 and 2002.
The Switch’s userbase will surely grow larger as new games become available (including the highly-anticipated launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on December 7), but Nintendo is also celebrating the continued success of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild today. After a strong sales surge during the last quarter, the critically-acclaimed Action RPG has now sold more than 10.28 million copies.
That means The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the third game to join the “Ten Million Club” on the Switch, though it currently sits behind Super Mario Odyssey (12.17 million copies sold) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (11.71 million copies sold).
