Nintendo sells 4.82M Switch consoles in holiday quarter, down 30.1%

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February 3, 2025 11:28 PM

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Nintendo announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, with hardware sales of the Switch hitting 4.82 million units, down 30.1% from the same quarter a year ago.

Clearly, we’re starting to get an Osborne situation here, where Nintendo has announced its Switch 2 game console now and Switch sales are just going to keep going down from here.

For the nine months ended December 31, Nintendo has sold 9.54 million Switch hybrid consoles, down 30.6% from a year ago.

Regarding the Nintendo Switch business during the nine months ended December 31, 2024, sales of titles released during this fiscal year increased steadily, with The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (released in September) recording sales of 3.91 million units to date.

Super Mario Party Jamboree (released in October) has sold 6.17 million units. In addition, Nintendo saw stable sales in titles released through the end of the previous fiscal year, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling 5.38 million units (for cumulative sales of 67.35 million units).

As a result of these factors, the total number of million-seller titles during this period reached 19, including titles from other software publishers. Hardware sales totaled 9.54 million units (a decrease of 30.6% year-on-year), and software sales totaled 123.98 million units (a decrease of 24.4% year-on-year).

Sales of both hardware and software declined compared to the same period of last fiscal year, when sales were substantially driven by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (released in May 2023) and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (released in October 2023). Even so, sales remained steady for a platform in its eighth year.

Turning to the digital business for the dedicated video game platform, digital sales totaled 245.8 billion yen, down 29.0% year on-year, mainly due to a decrease in sales of Nintendo Switch downloadable versions of packaged software.

In the mobile and IP related business, sales rose significantly in the same period...

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