Nintendo has predicted what number of Switch 2 consoles it expects to promote throughout its 2026 monetary yr, which can cowl the primary 10 months of the hybrid gaming console when it hits the market on June 5. In keeping with Nintendo’s outcomes for the total monetary yr that ended on March 31, it is forecasting that it will promote 15 million Switch 2 consoles and 45 million video games.
This may put it near the gross sales figures of the unique Switch console, which launched in March 2017 and reached 17.79 million gross sales globally throughout its first 13 months. It’s additionally value noting that Nintendo is predicting that the Switch 2 will attain its gross sales aim in 10 months. There are different components to think about as well–like the Switch 2 having the next MSRP of $450 for the bottom model–but the corporate has factored in US president Donald Trump’s tariff charges for its gross sales. In Japan, demand has outstripped provide as Nintendo says preorders that aspect have exceeded its expectations.
In different information from its financial year 2025 report, Nintendo reported a decline in internet gross sales and earnings, however it’s predicting a 63% rise in internet gross sales for the following monetary yr that’ll finish on March 31, 2026. Lifetime Switch console sales now stand at 152.12 million models offered as of March 31, 2025, and 155 million Switch video games had been offered throughout this monetary yr, a drop of twenty-two% when in comparison with the earlier yr’s tally of 200 million models offered.
Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree was Nintendo’s greatest first-party recreation of the fiscal yr with 7.48 million models offered, whereas Mario Kart 8 Deluxe continues to impress because it offered one other 6.23 million models. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge reached 4 million gross sales, whereas Donkey Kong Nation Returns HD and Mario & Luigi Brothership have recorded 1 million and 1.6 million gross sales, respectively.
Forward of the Switch 2 launch, Nintendo can be value greater than $100 billion based mostly on share costs.