Top 10 Best Selling Nintendo Switch Games of All Time

This game is a basic necessity for everyone with a Switch. Originally built for the failed Wii U, it became one of the best-selling entertainment products of all time on the Switch. Thanks to the massive amount of extra circuits that Nintendo kept adding, the cash register kept ringing incessantly well into 2025.

The ultimate digital escape route at the perfect time. When the world went into lockdown in the spring of 2020, Nintendo launched this virtual island paradise. The result was a collective obsession that suddenly saw millions of adults spending hours trading tubers with talking raccoons.

Masahiro Sakurai packed more than eighty iconic characters into one fighting game, from Pac-Man to Sephiroth. It is the ultimate crossover that is played both on Saturday evenings on the couch and in packed esports arenas.

As a launch title in 2017, this title single-handedly launched the Switch. The freedom to go wherever you wanted, combined with a physics system that rewarded creativity, made this an instant classic.

Armed with his living cap Cappy, the plumber transformed into dinosaurs and moving taxis. The game burst with creativity and regrouped the traditional platform elements into a gigantic journey of discovery.

The first full-fledged Pokémon adventures on a home screen caused some skepticism among the hardcore supporters. However, the criticism of the graphics and the deletion of the entire Pokédex disappeared like snow in the sun at the box office.

The game was full of technical errors and glitchy images, but the fans' hunger proved unstoppable. The step to a completely open world in which you determined the route yourself made up for so much that the millions of loot were collected in no time.

A direct sequel to a masterpiece is always a huge risk, but Nintendo pulled off the trick again. By giving players the tools to build their own vehicles, flying machines and bizarre constructions, Hyrule turned into a gigantic sandbox.

The clever use of the separate Joy-Con controllers meant you could play this anywhere, from the train to the kitchen table. The arguments over stolen stars and unfair bonuses kept millions of families busy and pushed sales figures far beyond the magical twenty million mark.

Another survivor of the Wii U legacy that found an audience of millions on the Switch. This traditional two-dimensional platformer offers exactly the nostalgic gameplay that excites the older generation.