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Nintendo Switch Console Crosses 92.87 Million in Sales
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Nintendo's latest earnings release reported on Thursday that the company's Nintendo Switch console has sold 92.87 million units worldwide as of September 30. The company sold 93.89 million units of software for the console between April 1 and September 30.
The company also revealed updated game sales as of September 30, including:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 38.74 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 34.85 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 25.71 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 24.13 million
- Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield: 22.64 million
- Super Mario Odyssey: 21.95 million
- Super Mario Party: 16.48 million
- Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eeve!: 13.83 million
- Splatoon 2: 12.68 million
- Ring Fit Adventure: 12.21 million
Nintendo also revealed that between April 1 and September 30, Nintendo sold 3.60 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, 2.19 million copies of New Pokémon Snap, and 1.94 million copies of Mario Golf: Super Rush.
Net sales for the first six months of the current fiscal year declined by 18.9% compared to last year. Gross profit also declined by 14.1% compared to last year.
Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday that Nintendo will only be able to produce about 24 million units of the Nintendo Switch, about 20% less than its previously planned production estimate of 30 million units, for the fiscal year ending in March 2022. This number includes the newer Switch OLED model and Switch Lite consoles. Nintendo released the new OLED model of its Nintendo Switch console on October 8.
Nintendo announced on October 29 that it is closing its offices in Redwood City, California and Toronto, Ontario and moving more employees from these "small satellite offices" to its offices in Redmond, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Switch hybrid home and handheld console debuted on March 3, 2017. The Switch is the company's fourth best-selling console behind the Nintendo DS, Game Boy, and Nintendo Wii, but it is approaching the lifetime sales of the Wii (101.63 million).
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