The Nintendo Switch is still the company’s second best-selling console of all time, as hardware sales begin to decline
Nintendo Switch hardware and software sales now appear to be in steep decline, as the handheld hybrid console has surpassed 143 million units sold.
That’s according to Nintendo’s recently published financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024-2025. The results show that as of June 30, 2024, the Switch has sold a total of 143.42 million units, split between the original model, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED.
There are signs that hardware sales are now firmly on a downward trend. Nintendo reported that it sold 141.32 million Switch consoles in May. So from April 1 to June 30, the company sold 2.1 million systems, which represents a 46.3% increase over last year’s results during the same period.
It’s a similar story for Nintendo Switch games, which sold 30.64 million units between April 1 and June 30, 2024. That’s a 41.3% decline from last year’s performance.
That said, the Nintendo Switch family is still comfortably the Kyoto-based company’s second best-selling console of all time, trailing only the Nintendo DS which sold approximately 154 million units. The Nintendo Switch is only behind one of its rival consoles in terms of sales figures – the PlayStation 2, which is said to have sold between 155 and 160 million units in its entire existence.
Declining sales are a natural part of a console’s lifecycle, especially when we’re about to get a successor. In this case, the tentatively named Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to launch in 2025, though Nintendo itself has yet to reveal any official details about the upcoming console. Nintendo has confirmed that it will be skipping Gamescom 2024 as well, so it’s likely we won’t get any news about the system for at least a month or two.