Nintendo Switch

About Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the ninth-generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Lifetime sales

Official manufacturer-reported figures.

Worldwide; Nintendo reports the Switch family together (incl. Switch Lite and OLED).

Source: Nintendo Co., Ltd. IR — Dedicated Video Game Sales Units, as of March 31, 2026.

Library & collector facts

Variants of Nintendo Switch

Hardware specs

Os

Nintendo Switch system software

Cpu

Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57

Gpu

256 Maxwell (microarchitecture), Maxwell-based CUDA cores, Docked: 768 MHz, 393 GFLOPS, Undocked: 384 MHz, 197 GFLOPS

Ram

4 GB LPDDR4

Power

3.7 Volt, V 15.95 Watt hour, Wh (4,310 mAh) Li-ion battery, Duration: 2.5–6.5 hours/4.5–9 hours, Charger: 7.5 Watt, W 5.0 V 1.5 Ampere, A/39 W 15.0 V 2.6 A, <u>Lite</u>, 3.8 V 13.6 Wh (3,570 mAh) Li-ion battery, Duration: 3–7 hours

Sound

Undocked: Linear PCM 2.0 stereo speakers (with pseudo-surround), Docked: Linear PCM 5.1

Weight

Original: 297 g, Lite: 277 g, OLED: 319 g

Dimensions

(In width x height x depth), Original: 173 × 102 × 14 mm, Lite: 208 × 91 × 14 mm, OLED: 176 × 102 × 14 mm

Display Output

Original: 6.2-in, IPS Panel, IPS (237 pixel density, ppi), 720p, Lite: 5.5-in, IPS (267 ppi), 720p, OLED: 7-in, OLED (210 ppi), 720p, Docked: 480p/720p/1080p via HDMI

Storage Internal

Original/Lite: 32 GB eMMC, OLED: 64 GB eMMC

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