Nintendo on Switch hardware sales, strong performance of first-party games
As part of its latest financial results, Nintendo has further discussed the performance of Switch. Despite a year-on-year decline in hardware, software sales went up a tick.
Nintendo also pointed out the “strong” performance of Switch OLED “in each region” since launching last October. Additionally, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl and Mario Party Superstars “got off to a good start”.
The full comments regarding Switch are as follows:
Unit sales for the entire Nintendo Switch family of systems in the third quarter declined 21.4% year-on-year to 18.95 million units. This breaks down to 11.79 million units of Nintendo Switch, 3.99 million units of Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, and 3.17 million units of Nintendo Switch Lite. Software sales grew 1.8% year-on-year to 179.29 million.
Focusing on hardware sales from October through December 2021, including the holiday season, Nintendo Switch – OLED Model saw strong sales in each region since its launch in October. In addition, as a result of the stable sales
performance also seen from Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite, sales of the overall Nintendo Switch family of systems during the same period were 10.67 million units (a decrease of 7.7% year-on-year). As with the same period
last year, sales continued to exceed 10 million units.Looking at software sales over the three-month period, both Mario Party Superstars (released in October) and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl (released in November) got off to a good start, with the former at 5.43 million units and the latter at 13.97 million units. Titles released in previous fiscal years also continued to sell well, resulting in an increase from the same period last year to overall sales of 85.41 million units (an increase of
12.6% year-on-year).
