Absolute units.
As of December 26th 2020, according to sales-tracking website VGChartz, the Nintendo Switch has finally outsold the 3DS, hitting an estimated 76,285,948 units sold. The 3DS, released in 2011, has so far sold 75,906,986 units.
The “List of best-selling game consoles” page of Wikipedia hasn’t been updated at the time of writing, but the Switch’s increased sales at the end of last year – no doubt due to Christmas purchases – would bump it up to being the 11th best-selling console of all time, behind the Game Boy, the Wii, and the Nintendo DS family. The Switch has a way to go until it reaches the top five, though – the cutoff is 102 million units sold.
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