Nintendo Switch 2 surpasses initial Sony PlayStation 5 sales with Mario Kart World its most popular game
Nintendo has released its latest financial report for the first half of fiscal year 2025, ending September 30. In short, the report reveals stronger Switch 2 demand than even Nintendo had anticipated. For context, the company downplayed initial Switch sales volumes and fell well short of the 10.5 million sales target it set for the Wii U.
By contrast, the company already claims to have sold 10.36 million Switch 2 consoles between its debut on June 5 and September 30 (curr. $449 on Amazon). Incidentally, it took Nintendo around two and a half years before reaching this figure for the maligned Wii U.
As such, Nintendo has now raised its full-year Switch 2 sales forecast from 15 million to 19 million units. For reference, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) exceeded 17 million units by its first anniversary after reaching 7.8 million units around five months post its global debut. Thus at this stage, the Switch 2 is outselling the PS5 regardless of how you cut it.
At this stage, Nintendo anticipates that the Switch 2 will be more popular than the Switch in its first year too, which reached 14.86 million units during that period. Unsurprisingly the latter's sales continue to drop, with Nintendo recording a 60% drop year-on-year to 1.89 million units. Consequently, Nintendo has trimmed its hardware forecast for the legacy model to 4 million units, although software projections have been revised upward from 105 million to 125 million, likely boosted by backwards compatibility with Switch 2 titles and that Mario Kart World has already shipped 9.57 million units.
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