The original Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports that the Nintendo Switch has, as of December 31, 2025, sold 155.37 million units since its launch in 2017, compared to 154.02 million units for the 2004 Nintendo DS.
The Zelda series has always been tried new things so I don’t think I’d put it in the same category as Pokemon, but BOTW and its sequel sold quite well, so I don’t think they will go the direction I’d have preferred. As a weird coincidence, yesterday my wife asked if I’d set up the NES Classic and she and the kids played SMB, Dr Mario, and other classics. Nintendo really was in a class of its own back then.