Nintendo published a document following the results of the financial year – this is the last report before the launch of Switch 2. Recall, he will take place on June 5. The results over the past 12 months were relatively weak, but the company is already looking into the future – its specialists voiced the optimistic forecast for Switch 2. Big N is sure that by the end of the current fiscal year, 15 million units of the new console will be sold.

Below was collected the most interesting from the document:

Results for the year

Pure revenue for the whole year fell by 30.3 % compared to the previous period – it dropped to 1.2 trillion yen ($ 8.3 billion). Net profit was also lower than last year – the indicator amounted to 278.8 billion yen (1.9 billion dollars), which is 43.2 % less.

Of the above 1.2 trillion yen revenue is about 1.1 trillion yen – the merit of Switch and games for it. However, this segment is again demonstrated by the fall – now by 30.9 %. The mobile direction is also hard, since its result was 27 % lower. Who is Nintendo Well done again, it is a segment with collectible cards and Merchendaise – it grew by 21.4 % compared to the previous year.

During the year, the share of sales, which falls on countries outside Japan, amounted to 76.4 %. The distribution for this period is as follows: in the first place North and South America (44.2 %), in the second line in Europe (24.5 %), and closes the three Japan (23.6 %).

The total number of https://cupcake-bingo-casino.co.uk/mobile-app/ Switch sold – 152.12 million devices. At the same time, 1,26 million “Sichi” managed to sell over the past quarter, and 10.8 million consoles (31.2 % less than last year) for the financial year). While Switch remains behind the most sold console Nintendo in the person of Nintendo DS. Its circulation is 154 million devices.

President Nintendo Suntaro Furukava (Shuntaro Furukawa) said that for the current financial year, the company expects to sell another 4.5 million Switch. Thanks to this, it should get ahead of Nintendo DS, but before the PlayStation 2 with its 160 million units of Sych will still not reach.

OLED version of the console (5.86 million devices) was most active in a year, and less Switch Lite (1.95 million consoles).

Buying games in the third quarter (there are just the winter holidays), in the fourth clients Nintendo spent on interactive entertainment relatively few. 31.43 million games for Switch were sold per quarter, and 155.4 million copies (falling 22.2 %) for a year. As a result, for the entire console’s life cycle it was possible to implement 1.391 billion copies of video games already.

This year the company hopes to sell 105 million games for the first Switch.

The share of purchases in the "digital" for the whole year amounted to 53.5 %. The indicator grew by 3.3 points, when compared with the result for the 2024th. The volume of sales of digital copies for the year dropped by 26.5 %, amounting to 326 billion yen ($ 2.2 billion).

The report confirmed that Pokémon Legends Z-A starts at the end of 2025, but Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has still a more blurry release window-2025.

Switch 2

The company expects to sell 15 million Switch 2 for the financial year (until the end of March 2026), as well as 45 million copies of games for it. This should exceed the result of the first Switch, which dispersed of 14.87 million copies for its first fiscal year. It is important to note that the original "Sych" and started earlier – March 3. When compared with Switch 2, the first console will have a handicap of 3 months.

However, many analysts share optimism Nintendo, based on data on pre -orders. In Japan alone, there are more than 2.2 million people who want to buy a console to buy a console. Perhaps the figure in the forecast would be even more if not for the duties that the US President introduced Donald Trump (Donald Trump). They have already forced the company to adjust the prices for accessories for the console.

According to Furukavi, If the duties increase a lot, Nintendo will be forced to increase the cost of Switch 2 in the United States.

Best -selling games for Switch

The company also voiced the circulations of its other games that did not fall into the top 10: