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Nintendo Switch has reached 143 million units sold as the company sets eyes on its successor
Inching ever closer to the record set by the PlayStation 2, the Nintendo Switch reached 143 million units sold this year, according to Nintendo’s financial results.
With the 2024/25 fiscal year in full throttle, Nintendo has unveiled their financial results for the first quarter of this period, with it proudly announcing that the Nintendo Switch hardware sales are now up to 143.42 million units sold as of June 30, 2024.
This number is quite a development after the company originally announced their earlier results of 141 million back in May. At the time, the Japanese entertainment company announced that since the console’s launch on March 3, 2017, Nintendo had made a net profit or 2.576 billion yen, making it their most profitable venture so far in the past 35 years. That number continues to grow, even though sales have begun to slow down.
According to the Big N themselves, while they did manage to sell 2.1 million consoles from across the Switch family of systems between April 1st and June 30th of this year, that is still a 46.3% decline year-on-year on sales. And that same massive slowing of sales has been mirrored on the software side of things, with a 41.3% decrease when compared to the exact same quarter from last year.
Considering that the Nintendo Switch is now officially the longest-lived console without a successor in Nintendo history (and that the studio themselves have teased one is coming in the next few years) this decrease isn’t really a surprise. But it appears like the company is still dead-set on making the Switch the best-selling console ever, and they’re getting surprisingly close to it: The current holder of that title is still the PlayStation 2, which at the end of its life had sold an estimated 155 million units.
With only around 12 million sales to go before that number can be matched, will the Nintendo Switch achieve the task? With the holidays still on the way, it’s very possible that they’ll eventually reach their goal. But then again, the “Switch 2″ could be announced very soon, so who knows.
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