Nintendo Has Sold Over 6 Million Switch 2s But Still Can't Keep Up With Demand

Nintendo sold 5.82 cardinal Switch 2s successful little than 4 weeks and is connected gait to deed its target of 15 cardinal units by April 2026, nan institution said successful its latest net report. If that pans out, nan Switch 2 would easy outsell nan original Switch, which took a afloat twelvemonth to deed that aforesaid 15 cardinal income number — making it a uncommon agleam spot successful today's gaming world.

Despite those superb income figures, Nintendo notes that request is outstripping proviso successful galore regions and promised to boost accumulation arsenic soon arsenic possible. There's immoderate penetration arsenic to really constrained Nintendo is elsewhere successful nan net report. While nan 5.82 cardinal number only counts income up to June 30, Nintendo did springiness an interim income update: As of July 25, Switch 2 income stood astatine "more than 6 cardinal units." That's not nan clearest figure, but it decidedly shows nan gait of console income slowed to comparative crawl crossed July.

Switch 2 package income were besides beardown pinch 8.67 cardinal units sold, acknowledgment successful ample portion to nan company's Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle on pinch Donkey Kong Bananza and games from extracurricular publishers (Nintendo besides just announced a bunch of caller third-party games coming soon). The institution besides sold 24.4 cardinal games designed for nan original Switch, mostly because nan caller console is backwards compatible pinch erstwhile Switch titles, it said.

All of that meant that Nintendo had a very bully quarter, much than doubling gross complete past twelvemonth to 572.3 cardinal yen ($3.8 billion) pinch a 56.9 cardinal yen profit ($378 million). The institution still expects to bring successful 1.9 trillion yen ($12.6 billion) for its fiscal year.

Update, July 1, 12PM ET: This communicative has been updated aft publish. The header and article initially mistated nan play successful which Nintendo sold 5.82 cardinal Switch 2 consoles arsenic 7 weeks. That play relates to Nintendo's declare of "more than 6 million" sales, alternatively than nan 5.82 cardinal figure. The header and article now accurately bespeak nan income figures, and we regret nan error.