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Nintendo President Says Switch Sales are Solid Given Its Age Despite Missing Target

Nintendo President Says Switch Sales are Solid Given Its Age Despite Missing Target - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2025 / 5,626 Views

Nintendo earlier today released its earnings report for the quarter ending December 31, 2024, and revealed there were 4.82 million Switch units shipped to bring its lifetime figure to 150.86 million units shipped.

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa in an earnings briefing did state sales for the Nintendo Switch are "solid" given its age, however, they did not achieve their goal.

"While we think sales of hardware and software are solid for the eighth year, we did not achieve our plan," said Furukawa (via VideoGamesChronicle).

The company did lower its forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 once again. This time by 1.5 million units to 11.00 million units.

If Nintendo is able to hit its forecast that would mean another 1.46 million Switch units shipped for the rest of the fiscal year for a lifetime shipment total of 152.32 million units.

The successor, the Nintendo Switch 2, is set to release later this year.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.


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Radek (on 04 February 2025)

The permanent price cut by at least $50 on every model would really help to achieve 160 millions by this year's end.

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2zosteven Radek (on 04 February 2025)

your right! if they want the crown they need a price cut!

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JackHandy 2zosteven (on 06 February 2025)

Can't be crowned best selling dedicated home console when it's not a dedicated home console. Unless you're talking the DS. And if that's the case, you would be correct. But it'll do that anyway even without a price cut.

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Bumblaster JackHandy (on 06 February 2025)

The Sony fanboy above is hurting. Also, Switch is a Home console and a handheld. I can plug it straight into my TV no problem.

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2zosteven JackHandy (on 06 February 2025)

where does dedicated come from? so you want the following for console tracking?

  1. dedicated home console
  2. dedicated hand held console
  3. dedicated hybrid console
  4. dedicated console with 2 joysticks
    ?????????????
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padib 2zosteven (on 09 February 2025)

Dedicated lunacy really

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Pemalite (on 04 February 2025)

The extra hardware sales are pretty irrelevant at this point, it's just icing on the cake... It's the software sales that are bringing in the money.

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padib Pemalite (on 09 February 2025)

Not really, more hardware sold means more software sold, because it mostly means more active players.

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VAMatt (on 05 February 2025)

Nintendo is the worst sales forecasting company that I've ever followed. Missing their forecast is par for the course. It also doesn't matter to anyone, because everyone understands that they almost never get it right. (In fairness, they have done a bit better the last few years than they did for the previous couple decades.)

In any case, software is where the money is made. At this point in the Switch's life cycle, hardware sales don't much matter.

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padib VAMatt (on 09 February 2025)

It's a bad take, the two go hand in hand.

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dane007 (on 04 February 2025)
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