Nintendo Switch surpassed the iconic Game Boy. The Switch has surpassed the Game Boy as one of the most influential handhelds ever released in terms of systems sold worldwide, and is now the most successful video game console of all time, second only to the DS. While the PlayStation 2 has been the best-selling console of all time with an estimated 2000 million units since its release in 158, Nintendo is slowly catching up with Sony's iconic system with its gaming hardware. Whether the company will eventually release the PS2 remains to be seen, but Nintendo's console still has a chance.
Nintendo Switch surpassed the iconic Game Boy. Just last year, the Switch surpassed the PS4 to make Nintendo's hybrid console the fourth best-selling console at the time of this writing. When the Switch launched in 2017, it was a phenomenal success, connecting the home system to mobile gaming with a range of titles, including standards like Mario Kart. It was the win the Japanese company needed after the Wii U in 2012 was a disappointment. It was a shame because the Wii U was a direct successor to the hugely popular Wii console, but its successor somehow failed.
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But that's all in the past, and according to a report from VGChartz, the Switch has surpassed Nintendo's OG handheld, the Game Boy. The latter is estimated to have sold over 118.69 million copies worldwide, while the former is estimated to outperform it at 118.99. Based on that, the Switch is currently the third most successful gaming console of all time based on sales. The casting shows that about 50 million of these units were sold in the United States, about 30 million in Europe, 27.44 million in Japan and 18.45 million in the rest of the world. Switch Lite and Switch OLED were also taken into account in the sales figures.
Perhaps for those too young to remember, the Game Boy was one of the most iconic handhelds of its era, if not all time. Released in 1989, the 8-bit machine was a gaming phenomenon and shipped with copies of Tetris, which helped ensure the success of both Nintendo's console and Alexei Pajitnov's addictive block game.