It doesn't seem like Nintendo plans to drop cartridges anytime soon, as the Switch 2 maker reports 38.5% of its…

• Nintendo has reported that 61.5% of its sales between March 30 and June 30, 2026, were digital purchases
• This means 38.5% were physical sales
• Digital sales also include other add-on software and downloadable content (DLC)

While Sony commits to ending the production of game discs, Nintendo has reported that almost 40% of its software sales are physical.

That's according to Nintendo's latest financial report for the first quarter of fiscal year ending March 2027, which confirms that between March 30 and June 30, 2026, 61.5% of Nintendo's sales were from digital purchases, meaning 38.5% came from physical sales.

The Mario maker reports that in the previous quarter, it earned 132.7 billion yen from digital sales alone, a 90% year-on-year increase and a 2.2% increase in the proportion of digital sales compared to the same time last year.

Software sales for the Switch 2also increased by 9.2% year-on-year to...

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