| Console | Total Sales (After 81 months) | Month 81 Sales | 12-Month Sales |
| Nintendo DS | 145,822,860 | 681,258 | 17,119,395 |
| Nintendo Switch | 132,912,906 | 1,667,465 | 16,650,677 |
Over the past 12-month launch aligned period the DS is still widening the gap and outselling the Switch.
Months 70-81 (Dec 2022 - Nov 2023) - Switch is estimated to have sold 16.65m
Months 70-81 (August 2010 - July 2011) - DS is estimated to have sold 17.12m
Now the DS is about to die pretty fast so the gap will quickly start closing. But the Switch will need stronger post-successor sales than the DS to reach 160m. Yet even now before the Switch is replaced it is selling worse than the DS in the past 12 launch aligned months when 6 of those months for the DS are after the 3DS release.
So if Switch isn't selling more than the DS launch aligned now, while the DS has a huge disadvantage of 6-months 3ds, how is it going to sell more than the DS post-successor? Especially as the 3DS didn't get off to the best start and the Switch 2 may not have that problem.
The later release of the Switch 2 compared to the 3DS is going to greatly help the Switch in potentially reaching similar sales to the DS but I really don't see the Switch selling 12m+ after the Switch 2 launches like the DS sold 12m after the 3DS, which is probably the minimum it will need to do to reach 160m.
Currently sticking to the around 155m I said before.
