As they already advanced, Nintendo has just celebrated its meeting of Trmestra ShareholdersLy has published numbers and estimates. At the dawn of the launch of its new console, the company has projected the Nintendo Switch 2 sales forecasts For his first year, and are lower than those of the first switch in his first full fiscal year.
The predictions are clear: During the year Fy26ranging from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, Nintendo hopes to sell 15 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles y 45 million console games (not including those that go in packs). Figures that would accumulate in a total period of 10 months of life.
- Switch 2 sales forecasts in its first fiscal year – 15 million units.
- Switch 2 games sales forecasts in its first fiscal year – 45 million units.
The projected figures are lower than those achieved by Nintendo Switch in his first year. when the hybrid closed its first full fiscal year (Fy18), he did it with 17.79 million consoles Already in the market, two million more than those estimated with its successor. Although there is “trap”, since Switch went on sale on March 3, 2017, so he turned almost 13 months when said fiscal period ended.
Switch 2 will have less sales, but they will be better
It may seem a lower figure, and even disappointing taking into account the enormous expectations that exist with the console and the large amounts of stock that Nintendo would have been preparing, but the forecasts of the company hide another more interesting fact, and that is that it is that it is that it is that Switch 2 will sell better than the first switch.
Those 15 million in 10 months of life equal to a sales projection of 1.5 million consoles per month on average. In comparison, Switch reached its first annual figure with a monthly mean of 1.37 million consoles. Nintendo Switch 2 sales will be faster according to these data.
We will have to wait a whole year to See if Nintendo meets your expectationsalthough the company is usually very cautious when it launches its initial estimates every fiscal year. With all the games that you have prepared, and those expected, we may get a surprise.
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