Analysts: the original Switch's huge success has given Nintendo a high mountain to climb, and the Switch 2 is a massive bet that fans want more of the same
Financial Times :
Sony says it has sold 160M+ PlayStation 2 units globally since its 2000 launch, the highest-selling console of all time, followed by the Nintendo DS and Switch
It's the highest-selling console of all time. — In honor of the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony has launched …
Analysts: Nintendo and Sony are heading into the holiday season with little to offer consumers; the Switch is seven years old and the $700 PS5 Pro is overpriced
Video game industry fears its most important quarter will fall flat with few new mass-market offerings
Nintendo says it has sold 146M Switch consoles in 7.5 years, the user community has grown to 127M annual players, and Pokémon sales on Switch have reached 99M
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 46.5% YoY to ~$1.65B, vs. ~$1.92B est., net profit down 55.3% YoY to ~$536M, and Switch sales down 46% YoY to 2.1M units
Here's What We Know About The Switch's Successor Evgeny Obedkov / Game World Observer : Lack of new major games causes Nintendo's Q1 revenue to fall 46.5%, with Switch continuing to slide TechRadar : ...
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says the company will announce Switch's successor this fiscal year; Nintendo has sold 141M+ units since Switch's 2017 debut
- Company missed profit estimates for the March quarter — Outlook falls shy of expectations as flagship console ages
Sony has sold 50M PS5 consoles in the three years since its November 2020 launch, almost as fast as the PS4 reached 50M, and outsold Xbox by almost 3:1 in 2023
Sony outsells Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump
Nintendo expects to sell 15M Nintendo Switch consoles this fiscal year, below analyst estimates of 15.7M; the company sold 18M units in the year to March 2023
Nintendo Co. expects to sell 15 million units of its Switch console this fiscal year, showing the extent of the slowdown for its six-year-old flagship product.
Sources: Nintendo plans to increase production of its six-year-old Switch console in the coming fiscal year, starting in April 2023, as demand remains strong
Nintendo Co. plans to increase production of its six-year-old Switch console in the coming fiscal year after shipping roughly 21 …
Nintendo says Splatoon 3 for Switch sold 3.45M total copies in Japan in its first three days, beating Animal Crossing: New Horizons' first-week record by 600K
Splatoon 3 has smashed Nintendo Switch software launch records in Japan, the company has announced.