Switch Shipments Reach 17.79 Million Units on March 31, 3DS Ships 72.53 Million Units - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 May 2018 / 4,466 Views
Nintendo has released its latest hardware and software figures for the Switch and 3DS through March 31, 2018.
Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 17.79 million units as of March 31, while the Nintendo 3DS hit 72.53 million units shipped.
Breaking down the hardware figure even further, 7.14 million Switch consoles have been shipped in the Americas, 4.38 million in Japan, and 6.27 million in the rest of the world.
Breaking down the 3DS: 25.17 million units have been shipped in the Americas, 24.70 million in Japan and 22.66 million in the rest of the world.
As for software 68.97 million games have been shipped on the Nintendo Switch and 364.89 million games on the Nintendo 3DS.
Nintendo forecasts it will ship 20 million Switch consoles in the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.
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The 3DS really is on it's last legs, in 3 months it only managed to ship a little more than half a million. At this pace, I don't think it will manage to outsell or even reach GBA and PSP sales.
Well the landscape in which the GBA and PSP existed is much different than the one the 3DS existed in. Not nearly as much smartphone competition, I think it's to be expected and when put beside the Vita, I think it fared better of the two because again, the competition is rough.
I agree, it's just that many people, including me, wondered if the 3DS could surpass the lifetime sales of those two handhelds, but I think it's clear now that this is not gonna happen.
Also worth noting the GBA had no real competition at all and thus had the handheld market all to itself. The 3DS had the Vita. And while it beat it soundly, the Vita still took up a chunk of that market. Together they have already surpassed the GBA sales comfortably.
Nintendo's forecast for FY18/19 about 3ds is 4m, so 76.53m as of March 2019. The forecast for the last fiscal year was 5m in the beginning, they sold in 6.4m eventually. It's not impossible for 3ds to match gba sales... Also imagine the potential of a 99$ New 2ds xl, I know that's hypothetical but it's very likely to happen. 3ds will be on its last legs when it will sell less than 1m on FYQ3 (OCT-NOV-DEC ) 540K for its seventh FYQ4 and having been replaced is very good.
Nintendo's forecast for FY18/19 about 3ds is 4m, so 76.53m as of March 2019. The forecast for the last fiscal year was 5m in the beginning, they sold in 6.4m eventually. It's not impossible for 3ds to match gba sales... Also imagine the potential of a 99$ New 2ds xl, I know that's hypothetical but it's very likely to happen. 3ds will be on its last legs when it will sell less than 1m on FYQ3 (OCT-NOV-DEC ) 540K for its seventh FYQ4 and having been replaced is very good.
Sweet numbers all around. Looks like the Switch will be able to beat the total software sales of the WiiU before the end of the year.
Thats very impressive. Certainly better than the ps4 in its first year. Now all it has to do is sustain it.
Not really......PS4 did around 18-19 million its first 13 months
3DS software sales kind of suck...
"Shipments figures for the Nintendo Switch reached 17.79 million units as of December 31, while the Nintendo 3DS hit 72.53 million units shipped". Shouldn't this be March 31? Anyway good numbers all around we will see how well they will keep up this year.
Appears that they better increase their forecast for fiscal year shipments. Only 2.2m to go with most of the year ahead. Crazy numbers
They are expecting to ship 20 million units all within this fiscal year, which would put them around 38 million shipped by the end of next March.
