this change This is already the eighth year. That’s longer than any Nintendo system has gone without a successor. But the company remains bullish on the future of hybrid consoles, even if fans Waiting for news about Switch 2 As soon as September this year. Nintendo plans to sell more than 12 million new Switch units this year, and everyone is asking the same question: How?
Nintendo’s latest financial report The running from April to June was terrible. Especially bad. People expected it to be bad, but somehow it was even worse than that. There are no major first party games like this The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom There is no form of large-scale popular culture super mario bros moviethe Japanese gaming console maker’s profits fell by more than 70%.
Here are some other interesting takeaways from Nintendo’s latest financial report:
- Remastered version Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD 1 Both sold over 1 million copies
- The ratio of digital sales to physical sales jumped from 47.3% in the same period last year to 58.9% this time
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Last year sold more than all first-party games this year combined
- But only an additional 1.3 million copies were sold in the past nine months
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild actual sale more Compare Trafigura last season
- The number of individual Switch players has reached 128 million
- The 3DS is dead, but Nintendo still sold 60,000 games last quarter
Can Nintendo Switch still outsell PS2?
The biggest news, however, is that Nintendo still plans to sell 13.5 million Switch units this fiscal year. The company sold 2.1 million vehicles last quarter, which means it needs to sell another 11.4 million this summer through the holiday season and beyond. If realized, this would rival the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2, the best-selling console of all time with 155 million units sold as of 2012. Maybe that’s why former Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan A parting gift is moving the goalposts Announced that the PS2 (which he helped market) would eventually sell 160 million units.
It’s still possible that the Switch could hit that number during the lifetime of a successor like the Switch 2, but analysts are skeptical given the lack of an officially announced big seller and the total Switch sales that year. The Legend of Zelda: TOTK and Super Mario Bros. Miracle Only 15 million came out. “I really want to know how Nintendo hopes to achieve their hardware sales goals,” said Tokyo analyst Serkan Toto Tell Burundi today. “I doubt Nintendo has enough fuel left, especially if they plan to get there without lowering the price of the hardware.”
Price cuts are indeed a way for Nintendo to stimulate new sales. While the company released a cheaper $200 Switch Lite, it was still the $350 Switch OLED that sold more strongly. The hardware is currently running on specs from a few years ago, and if it could be $50 cheaper, that would be a big deal. It’s also possible that Nintendo still has a big surprise or two in store for the fall and winter. we should not underestimate Super Mario Party Extravaganza—super mario party Still the seventh best-selling game on Switch, and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Despite its more old-school appearance, it could be a system mover.
But if there is no new Pokemon Judging from this year’s games, it seems more likely that 2024 will be the Switch’s weakest year since 2018. Golden One is for echo of wisdom Looking really sharp and convincing players to buy newer limited-edition models while passing on older models to younger family members or friends is how Nintendo has traditionally boosted its handheld metrics. We’ll have to wait and see if this time the Switch threatens the PS2’s status as the best-selling console of all time, or if it stagnates as everyone expected.
