The Wii and Switch have a lot in common. They both helped bring Nintendo bounce back from some darker periods, as the Wii was a big hit with "casual" gamers after the GameCube was trounced in sales by the Xbox One. The two consoles also appealed to mainstream audiences, with Wii's motion controls giving people a novel way to play and Switch's hybrid handheld/home console nature making it easy to play games anywhere.

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Now, sales data for the Switch and its games. According to Nintendo, the Switch has sold 89.04 million units to date. This has put it within close range of the Nintendo Wii, which sold 101.63 million units throughout its lifespan. If the Switch still has multiple years left in its own lifespan via hardware revisions, then it very likely has what it takes to become the best-selling Nintendo home console yet.

The Nintendo Switch saw a spike in sales (and shortages) during the first year of the pandemic, but the system will possibly lose some of that momentum going into the 2021 holiday season now that COVID lockdowns have been lifted. Switch OLED Model pre-orders quickly sold out at retailers when they opened - however, it's unclear if that was the result of scalpers buying up all of the stock straight away, as has been the case with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

The Switch is facing stiff competition from the PS5, but the Nintendo system has a number of high-profile exclusives on the way. Metroid Dread, Metroid Prime 4, the sequel to Switch will outsell the Nintendo DS, which would require 70 million more sales to make it the best-selling Nintendo console of all time.