Nintendo launched its newest quarterly earnings report in the present day for the six-month interval that ended on September 30, revealing various new particulars in regards to the well being of the corporate’s enterprise, together with up to date gross sales figures for the Switch and Switch 2. The unique Switch has now offered 154.01 million models because it launched in 2017, and that is pretty near the PS2’s lifetime file of 160 million.
Will the Switch be capable to catch the PS2? In all probability not, says one analyst. Even so, the Switch is about to move the Nintendo DS (154.02 million models offered) to develop into Nintendo’s best-selling platform ever. It wants simply 10,000 extra gross sales to match the DS. This has little doubt already occurred, as Nintendo’s numbers run by means of September 30, and that is already greater than a month in the past. Nonetheless, this would possibly not be official till Nintendo releases its subsequent earnings report in February 2026 or sooner if the corporate opts to make an announcement exterior of its scheduled earnings releases.
Daniel Ahmad of Niko Companions was just lately requested if he believes the Switch can surpass the PS2 for lifetime gross sales, and he replied, “Probably not.”
Whereas Nintendo has boosted its gross sales projections for the Switch 2 from 15 million to 19 million for the present fiscal yr, the corporate is downgrading its outlook for the unique Switch. The corporate beforehand stated it anticipated to promote 4.5 million models of the console in the course of the fiscal yr ending March 31, 2026. Nonetheless, the corporate is now modeling gross sales of 4 million models.
For the six-month interval ended September 30, Nintendo offered 4.72 million authentic Switch consoles, which was down 60% in comparison with the identical interval final yr. Gross sales of the unique mannequin had been anticipated to stoop, in fact, as Nintendo only in the near past launched the Switch 2 in June 2025.
The Switch 2, in the meantime, has now offered greater than 10.36 million models as of September 30. It’s the fastest-selling console ever over its first 4 months, outpacing the sales of different platforms over the same time period, together with the PS5 (7.8 million), PS4 (7.6 million), Wii (5.8 million), DS (5.3 million), and authentic Switch (4.74 million).