Nintendo sells 4.82M Switch consoles in holiday quarter, down 30.1%

Nintendo announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, with hardware sales of the Switch hitting 4.82 million units, down 30.1% from the same quarter a year ago.

Clearly, we’re starting to get an Osborne situation here, where Nintendo has announced its Switch 2 game console now and Switch sales are just going to keep going down from here.

For the nine months ended December 31, Nintendo has sold 9.54 million Switch hybrid consoles, down 30.6% from a year ago.

Regarding the Nintendo Switch business during the nine months ended December 31, 2024, sales of titles released during this fiscal year increased steadily, with The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (released in September) recording sales of 3.91 million units to date.

Super Mario Party Jamboree (released in October) has sold 6.17 million units. In addition, Nintendo saw stable ...