Nintendo Switch 2 sales go past 10M units; software sales almost double

Nintendo Switch 2 sales go past 10M units; software sales almost double
Nintendo Switch 2. Credit: Nintendo
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Key points

  1. Nintendo has recently published its financial reports comparing Q1-Q2 FY2025 to Q1-Q2 FY2026.
  2. The Switch 2 has sold approximately 10.36 million units, while the Switch has sold 1.89 million.
  3. The company also revealed some of the release dates of its upcoming games.

On Nov. 4, 2025, Nintendo revealed in its financial reports for the first half of the fiscal year 2026 that the Switch 2 has sold approximately 10.36 million units, while software for the console has sold 20.62 million units. The Nintendo Switch sold 1.89 million units, which is a 60% drop from the 4.72 million units sold in the previous year.

Within the same time period, Nintendo has earned 1.099 billion Japanese yen, a 110.1% year-over-year increase from 523 million yen. Due to this, Nintendo has also modified its financial forecast, raising net sales, operating profit, ordinary profit, profit attributable to owners of parent and profit per share forecasts.

The company has also modified its software sales, revealing that Mario Kart World has sold 9.57 million units and Donkey Kong Bananza has sold 3.49 million units. Over on the Switch side, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still leads with 69.56 million units sold, followed by Animal Crossing: New Horizons with 48.62 million units.

Additionally, Nintendo has also shared its upcoming release dates and windows for the games it is currently developing:

Nintendo also revealed that YoY, digital sales have decreased by 2.8%. The company said that the decline was “mainly due to the impact of exchange rates and a decrease in sales of download-only software.”

Cedric Pabriga
Contributing editor

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