Nintendo discusses player transition from Switch to Switch 2

Switch is on track to be Nintendo’s best-selling systems of all time, but now that Switch 2 is here, there’s obviously a need to move players over. Nintendo gave some insight into what this has been like thus far during a financial results briefing.

According to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, 84 percent of Nintendo Switch 2 players transitioned from the previous system. He also said “if we look at when these transitioning consumers first started playing Nintendo Switch, we see no concentration in any specific period.”

Furukawa’s full words:

“I would now like to share some insights about Nintendo Switch 2 players, based on our internal sources. Currently, 84% of them transitioned from Nintendo Switch. This high percentage shows that many consumers who enjoyed Nintendo Switch are smoothly transitioning to Nintendo Switch 2, allowing us to maintain our relationships with them across platform generations. Furthermore, if we look at when these transitioning consumers first started playing Nintendo Switch, we see no concentration in any specific period. Consumers who purchased Nintendo Switch between its launch in 2017 and the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 have been uniformly migrating to Nintendo Switch 2.”