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curl-6 on 27 June 2019
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RolStoppable said:

@curl-6 Your information is wrong.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/convocation_notice1906e.pdf

From page 7:

The results for this fiscal year showed strong software sales for Nintendo Switch, which contributed
to the expansion of hardware sales. In particular, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate recorded sales of 13.81
million units, while Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon Let’s Go, Eevee! sold 10.63 million units
and Super Mario Party sold 6.4 million units, making them all major worldwide hits. In addition, Mario
Kart 8 Deluxe sold 7.47 million units. Combined with steadily-growing sales of titles released during
previous fiscal years and titles released by other software publishers, the total number of million-seller
titles during this fiscal year was 23. As a result, hardware sales for this fiscal year totaled 16.95 million
units (12.7% increase on a year-on-year basis), while 118.55 million software units were sold (86.7%
increase on a year-on-year basis).

So that's not 23 titles that have sold shipped 1m+ over the course of Switch's lifetime so far, but 23 titles that have sold shipped 1m+ copies during the fiscal year April 1st 2018 to March 31st 2019. This means that games that were released before April 1st 2018 started at sales shipments of 0 again, because it's all about sales shipments during a certain 12-month-period.

For those wondering if the 7.47m figure for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is correct, yes, it is. That's how many copies the game sold shipped during the previous fiscal year.

EDIT: Adjusted all sales-related words to shipments for more clarity.

Also, this information was put on Nintendo's corporate website on June 3rd, so it's not exactly new. The information got reiterated at this week's shareholder meeting.

RolStoppable said:

Page 5 of the supplementary information lists the Nintendo titles that shipped 1m+ copies during the fiscal year. Please note that the figures I post only cover the 12-month-period and are therefore not LTD figures for games that released before April 1st 2018.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/190425_3e.pdf

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 13.81m
Pokémon: Let's Go, Evee/Pikachu! - 10.63m
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 7.47m
Super Mario Party - 6.40m
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 4.30m
Super Mario Odyssey - 4.04m
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 3.31m
Splatoon 2 - 2.69m
Mario Tennis Aces - 2.64m
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - 2.25m
Kirby Star Allies - 1.30m
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - 1.18m
Octopath Traveler - 1.17m*
Yoshi's Crafted World - 1.11m
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit - 1.09m

*Octopath Traveler was published by Nintendo outside of Japan. The figure does not include sales of the game in Japan.

That's 15 of the 23 games covered, one of which (Octopath Traveler) is actually a third party game. So 14 of the 23 million sellers are Nintendo games, the remaining nine are third party titles.

Thanks man, OP and thread title revised.

Sorry it took so long, I had an evening gig last night and crashed as soon as I got home, so I was last online about 5:30pm and didn't check back in until now, 9am next morning.