Nintendo Sold 2.49 Million Switch 2 Consoles in Quarter

Sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 are slowing quickly thanks to the ongoing component crisis: The videogame maker said that it sold just 2.49 million units in the quarter ending March 2026, for a total of 19.86 million units in the fiscal year. But it sold 7 million, 4.54 million, and 5.82 million units in the previous three quarters sequentially, and the company is now warning that things will only get worse.

This news came as part of the financial report for Nintendo’s fiscal year 2026, which ended March 31, 2026. For the year, Nintendo reported a net profit of 424 billion yen on revenues of 2,313 billion yen, and those figures represent gains of 52.1 percent and 98.6 percent, year-over-year (YOY).

The issue, of course, is that Nintendo started selling the Switch 2 in June 2025, so those numbers are high compared to the year-ago quarter and fiscal year when the original Switch was reaching end-of-life. Thanks to the component crisis, however, Nintendo has been forced to raise the price of the Switch 2 and lower its estimates for fiscal year 2027 unit sales. It now expects to sell 16.5 million units, a decline from the nearly 20 million units it sold in FY26.

“Reflecting strong launch-year sales and price revisions, we expect FY27 sales units to decline year-on-year,” Nintendo noted in its earnings announcement. “Even so, we believe this represents a solid level of adoption for Nintendo Switch 2 in its second year after launch.”

Nintendo also sold 560,000 OG Switch units in the quarter, compared to 1.36 million, 910,000, 980,000, and 1,26 million in the previous four quarter sequentially. So Nintendo has now sold about 156,000 OG Switch units overall.

Software sales were up, at least. Nintendo sold 10.79 million Switch 2 software units in the quarter, compared to 17.31 million, 11.95 million, and 8.67 million units in the previous three quarters. But it sold 27.98 million OG Switch software units, too, which is down from 31.43 million a year ago; total Switch/Switch 2 software sales, however, were higher than a year ago, at 38.77 million units.

54.6 percent of Switch software sales are now digital, up from 53.5 percent one year ago. And Nintendo says it now has about 129 million monthly active users, roughly even with the past two quarters. It’s worth noting, too, that the Super Mario Galaxy movie has contributed positively to Nintendo’s earnings with over $800 million in revenues in worldwide in its first four weeks.