In just under five years, Nintendo's Switch console has surpassed lifetime sales of the Wii.

Over the Wii's seven-year lifespan it became Nintendo's best-selling home console, and the first to achieve more than 100 million sales. The final sales total sits at 101.63 million, but the Switch flew past that by the end of 2021. Nintendo's latest sales figures show 103.54 million units of the hybrid console have been sold.

The Switch now has two more pieces of Nintendo hardware firmly in its sights, but one is much harder than the other to surpass. The first is the original Game Boy, which sold 118.69 million units over its lifetime. I'd be more surprised if the Switch didn't surpass that total.

The second target is the Nintendo DS, and that's a much bigger mountain to climb. Over its lifetime and many hardware iterations, Nintendo sold a total of 154.02 million DS handhelds.

Whether the Switch can top that is hard to say. As Reuters reports, Nintendo sold 18.95 million Switch in the nine months to the end of December last year. The previous year over the same period the Switch sold 24.1 million units. Even if sales were maintained at around 20 million units a year, it would take until 2024 for the Switch to surpass the DS. By then, we may be buying a Switch successor instead. However, Nintendo did state last year that the Switch has only reached the "middle phase" of its life.