Nintendo has drastically lowered its Nintendo Switch console sales forecast for its fiscal year.
In addition to revealing that Nintendo Switch sales have exceeded 114 million and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sales have reached almost 50 million, the company also shared that it has reduced its sales forecast for the console's current fiscal year by two million.
News, Nintendo's semi-annual earnings release for fiscal year ending March 2023 and the company reported that it lowered its forecast, taking into account production/sales performance factors.
Nintendo announced with the sentence, "We've reduced our estimate for Nintendo Switch hardware by 2 million units to 19 million units." “While there is a gradual improvement in semiconductor and other component supplies for the Nintendo Switch, and a rebound in hardware manufacturing, we have changed our forecast for Nintendo Switch sales figures for the fiscal year, taking into account their production and sales performance so far.”
Software sales for Nintendo Switch reached 917 million, and The sales of Switch games are updated until September 30. announced. Switch's best-selling game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, has already reached 50 million copies. (48.41 million)
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is second with 40,17 million, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate finished third with 29,53 million, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was fourth with 27,79 million, and Pokemon Sword and Shield finished fifth with 25.37 million.
Nintendo gave an update on software sales for the period, sharing that Splatoon 3 sold more than 7.90 million units, Nintendo Switch Sports crossed 6.15 million, Mario Strikers: Battle League sold 2.17 million units, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sold 1.72 million units. . It also confirmed that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had sold an additional 3.07 million units, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land had sold another 2.61 million units, bringing the two together to 5.27 million units.
Finally, he shared that the total number of million-selling games on Switch – first and third party – reached 15 during this period, and that “software sales increased 1.6% year-on-year to 95.41 million units”. On the other hand, hardware units sold fell 19,2 percent year on year to 6,68 million units due to factors such as shortages in semiconductor and other component supplies.” Look, look… Haven't you bought the switch yet? Neither did we.
