Nintendo Switch: Company Confidence Dips as Momentum Slows

General news News Nintendo Nintendo News 11/06/2024

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Nintendo has been a bit cautious with its predictions, so it’s not sure if the Switch will be able to beat the PlayStation 2’s record…

In today’s news, there was already talk of a successor, which has been given a feature that will eat into Switch sales if the two platforms are available at the same time for some time. So with sales slowing, it’s not certain that the Switch will catch up to the PS2. In the last quarter (ending September 30), 2.62 million Switch units were sold (down 31% from the previous year…). No ratio information were given for the base model, the Lite, or the OLED portion of the Switch. This brings the total number of Switch units sold to 146.04 million. In the last three months, 39.64 million games were sold, bringing the total to 1306.1 million. That’s an average of 8.94 games purchased for a Switch.

For this fiscal year (April 2024 to the end of March 2025), Nintendo had hoped to sell 13.5 million Switch games, but in its new annual report it was revised down to 12.5 million, as last year the Mario movie took over game sales, as did The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This year, the Japanese company didn’t have such a big hit in the first half of the fiscal year, and as a result, they cut their profit forecast by 10%…

Here’s a list of the top 10 first-party titles:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 64.27 million
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 46.45 million
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 35.14 million
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 32.29 million
Super Mario Odyssey – 28.50 million
Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 26.44 million
Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 25.69 million
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 21.04 million
Super Mario Party – 20.98 million
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.77 million

Newly announced sales figures:

Nintendo Switch Sports – 14.37 million
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – 2.58 million (New)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024) – 1.94 million
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD – 1.57 million

If they have lowered their revenue expectations, they will NOT launch the successor to the Switch by the end of March, in the current fiscal year!

Source: Gematsu

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