The Nintendo Switch is rapidly closing the mark on its older hardware brethren, the Wii, so far as total lifetime sales are concerned. Announced during today's latest earnings release by the company, Nintendo confirm that combined sales of both the original 2017 model, as well as its fully-portable Switch Lite equivalent, have now passed the 80 million mark. Standing at a total 84.59 million units, having already overtaken the 3DS' life-time sales of around 76 million prior. During this fiscal year, Nintendo managed to move roughly 29 million consoles -- an increase of more than a third, compared to the previous year. Of which, roughly 8.5 million of those, were of the Lite model.

A similar jump was present on the software side of things as well, with yearly sales of games reaching nearly 231 million during the past twelve months. As a result, there are now exactly three-dozen titles that have passed the million mark on Switch. Of those 36 games, 22 are first-party Nintendo titles, with the remaining 14 published by other companies. While Nintendo doesn't keep a record of third-party sales, one of those games we know for sure has crossed such a milestone is Monster Hunter Rise, with the game's developer/publisher, Capcom, recently announcing the game had gone even further, selling through more than six million units as of the end of April -- a little over a month since it first released exclusively for the Switch.