Nintendo has updated sales data with regard to hardware and software Of Nintendo Switchwith the console inching ever closer to the all-time record despite a general decline in market performance.
As of the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2024/2025, Nintendo Switch units sold, according to the company’s updated data as of the end of June 2024, are now 143.42 million all over the world.
This is an increase of 2.1 million compared to the previous figure, which dated back to the beginning of April and spoke of 141.32 million, but it is also a sharp decline in terms of “year on year”, since it represents 46.3% less than what was recorded for the same period in the previous year.
Nintendo DS Remains in First Place but Switch Gets Closer
The software has also seen a sharp decline of 41.3% with 30.64 million games sold in the three months in question, explained by the company with the release of Super Mario the Movie and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in that period of 2023.
The drops are significant, almost collapses compared to the previous year’s trend, but this does not take away the fact that the results achieved are still notable.
Nintendo Switch, in this case, is getting ever closer to the absolute record for Nintendo’s history as the best-selling console ever: in first place is still the Nintendo DS with 154.02 million, but the Switch has always followed closely behind, in second place, with 143.42 million consoles sold.
Given the noticeable drop in pace and the fact that the machine is now in its eighth year, with a new model likely due next year, it’s hard to say whether it will ever be able to overtake the Nintendo DS at this point, or the all-time sales record holder that is still the PlayStation 2, but it can certainly come close.
Perhaps with an official price cut it could receive a further boost, as happened to the old Sony console in the final phase of its life cycle, so we wait to see how far Nintendo Switch can go.
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