Nintendo believes that Switch 2 will sell 15 million units worldwide during the current financial year.
The company shared the sales forecast Fiscal report For the year ended on 31 March 2025. It hopes that 2 software will be sold at a total of 45 million units in the same period.
The original switch sold around 18 million units worldwide on shelves in its first year. The device was launched on March 3, 2017 and was 2.74 million units sold by the end of the monthAfter this proceeded 15.05 million units shift during next financial yearWhich ended on 31 March 2018.
It is worth noting that the initial forecast of the Nintendo for Switch 2, which has been slapped to launch on 5 June (After frightening some tariffs), Only covers its first nine months on shelves. This means that it is completely possible that a long -awaited console can improve its predecessor over a period of 12 months.
As it stands, the original switch is firmly on the track to become the best -selling nintendo console of all time. During the FY25, the device reached 10.8 million units to 152.12 million lifetime sales. Less than 2 million sales are required during the current financial year to defeat the all-time hardware sales record conducted by Nintendo DS (154.02 m units).
It sounds like an forgiveness conclusion at this point, in which Nintendo has estimated another 4.5 million switch sales during the current financial year.
Prepare to bend out the original switch out as a decline in sales of hardware and software
Given the widespread financial performance of Nintendo, consolidated net sales decreased by 30.3 percent year-on-year to 1.16 trillion yen ($ 8.03 billion). The profit declined 43.2 percent year-on-year to 278.8 billion yen ($ 1.9 billion).
Hardware sales have declined by 31.2 percent year after year, while software sales from 22.2 percent to 155.41 million units in the same period.
Given that the switch is now at the end of its life cycle, those related recession is to be expected.
Somewhere else, digital sales fell 26.5 percent to 326 billion yen ($ 2.25 billion) on the year, which was due to a decrease in the sale of the downloadable switch title. The income related to the super Mario Brothers film has come down by 27 percent to 67.6 billion yen ($ 466.8 million), which is now more than two years old.
Further, Nintendo hopes that the launch of Switch 2 will be launched to help give a full-year selling of 1.9 trillion yen ($ 13.1 billion) during FY 2.
