Nintendo Reportedly Aims to Produce 25 Million Switch 2 Units by March 2026 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 October 2025 / 4,154 Views
Nintendo is reportedly looking to produce as many as 25 million Nintendo Switch 2 units by the end of its fiscal year, which ends March 2026. This is according to people familiar with the matter that spoke with Bloomberg.
The company has asked its manufacturing partners to increase production as it counts on the demand to keep up over the holiday and into next year.
Shipping estimates from its assembly partners have the Switch 2 selling around 20 million units this fiscal year, with leftover consoles available in inventory for the next fiscal year.
Nintendo's forecast for the Switch 2 for the fiscal year is currently at 15 million units. However, Nintendo was able to ship more than third of that figure in its first month alone with 5.82 million units shipped in June and even sold over six million units in just seven weeks.
The Switch 2 is currently the fastest selling video game console of all-time as it has sold over eight million units by the end of August, according to VGChartz estimates.
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Sales must have continued to be roaring for Nintendo to make such a proclamation.
..Which is a good sign for the platform.
Switch 2 is destined to sell very well. Especially in their launch year. Now whether they actually shipp that much is another story. I pray they dont get caught up in any more of this stupid trade crap but here we find ourselves in 2025. I do suspect them to finally get some competition in 2 years with the Playstation handheld but honestly I think both formats can thrive.
I think the PS handheld will be a minimum of 500$ when it launches, and I don't think Sony is intending for it to compete with the Switch 2. It's just a portable version of the PS5, so every sale of the handheld sold will basically just be another PS5 sold
Also. Nintendo will probably have a "Switch 2 lite" out by the time it launches and I don't think Sony has any interest trying to lower prices of handhelds to compete with Nintendo
Yeah I imagine going forward, PS5 and 6 will be the default "home" console with NS2 as the runner up... and NS2 as the default for the portable audience with a PS handheld filling a more enthusiast role
Should be interesting to watch
Switch 2 sales have slowed down in Europe at a far greater level than the US and Japan and the rest of the world is typically more price sensitive overall so not such great sales there. So it feels like Nintendo is relying on very strong sales in the US and Japan which might be indicated by their current sales pattern. PS5 returned to being the best selling console in August in Europe according to VGChartz. It feels like all confidence has been lost in the Xbox brand and I wonder if this will effect Nintendo positively in the markets that gave Xbox consoles decent sales figures. Which I think is North America, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand but not sure of this. It feels like we are moving to 2 main console brands within the next couple of years. Yes I realise Xbox may become a brand of more PC compatible hardware but then those will be just part of the PC market rather than proprietary console market and from what has been written they will be an expensive option selling itself on the Xbox brand.
Sales in Europe are good, I don’t see why everyone on this website is bashing Nintendo sales in Europe. The switch 1 is at 40M in Europe. France is the biggest European market for Nintendo. Just wait and see
Didn't French retailers permanently drop the price on Switch 2 last week to clear our inventory?
I saw an allegedly worker at the retail that dropped the price say they were overcharging before that, and other people came saying other retails in the country were also selling for well above the MSRP.
Well that maybe the case but it seems rather anecdotal though. All I know is that Amazon France was one of the major retailers reducing the price of Switch 2 to clear out Stock. Being that Nintendo doesn't really do price drops especially after launching a new system and that retailers are doing this but stock appears in abundance in Europe then that's not the greatest sign for sales after just 3 months on the market. Just looking at this website specifically it got outsold in Europe in August by a 5 year old system and that trend will likely continue in September as well. Just saying, it's not the greatest look for the system. I am sure it will be fine in the long run but right now, it's understandable if people question the sales ratio of the system compared to the US and Japan.
The switch was outsold by the PS4 everywhere from 2017 to 2018. It’s normal, why are people acting like that when it’s Nintendo LMAO ? The switch 2 will be fine and will sell very good.
That’s still the best selling console at launch. France is the biggest market for Nintendo and I can tell you, the Switch 2 is very popular among French gamers. Them cutting down the price is actually a good sign
I work at Micromania and I have talked with colleagues from Fnac and even Auchan. The sales of the Switch 2 are not that impressive, at least in France; in my store we even sell more PS5s and Switch 1s than the Switch 2.
Yeah take it with a grain of salt, I'm just saying what I remember seeing someone say a week or so ago.
But like Yanis said, a system not being the best selling console everywhere every month after launch isn't a bad look, it's normal.
It’s not to clear out inventory. They use the switch 2 as a way of appealing people. The less expensive it is, the more people buy games and go to this store.
So they did have to drop the price 3 months after launching? Got it.
They also did that with switch 1 that was heavily popular. 419 euros is 489 US dollars and 469 for the bundle is 550 dollars. The Euro is way stronger than dollar, so don’t forget about that.
It's a brand new console and is losing in sales to a console that is five years old... that's why. Well, that and we're on a sales-site lol
And it was the same with the switch 1 being outsold by the PS4. Damn why are you guys so pessimistic with Nintendo lmao. They’re gonna crush Sony
Switch 1 was coming off Wii-U. Switch 2 is coming off Switch 1. Completely different circumstances.
The PS5 was at 5 million at the same time. The switch is at 8 million
French person here, the Switch 2 has always been available in stock. No shortage, I think the stocks are too high here compared to demand, and that's why retailers chose to cut the price. Switch 1 also didn't do as well in Europe compared to USA. Here it's PlayStation land and always has been.
Related to Europe, was quite surprised that VGChartz Europe Switch 2 sales increased from Aug 235187 units to Sep 254521 units, while US and Japan Switch 2 sales slowed down month over month. Are people in Europe buying more Switch 2 in Sep? seems not so in Spain?
Looks like they don't have any intention to increase the price, which would lower the demand.
I don't think we have hard evidence the month Switch 2 hardware manufacturing began but I would think around February-March. Maybe way back in November-December 2024.
25 million units made in one fiscal year/12 months is crazy. That's averaging a little over 2 million units a month. Apple makes over 200 million iPhones a year, but they also sell over 200 million a year. Switch 2 selling 25 million units by a few months into the next fiscal year is a tall order indeed for new hardware. I can't think of even one piece of hardware that sold 25 million units in its first year. A lot of gaming hardware tends to peak in units sold in its 2nd-4th years, not first.
