Nintendo’s sales for Switch hardware and software have seen big declines as the console nears the end of its life.
In its latest earnings report, Nintendo stated a 46.3 percent decline year-on-year of console sales, while software has declined 41.3 percent year-on-year.
However, this is largely due to the huge success Nintendo had in 2023. The release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie “energised” game sales, while the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boosted both software and hardware sales.
“There were no such special factors in the first quarter of this fiscal year, and with Nintendo Switch now in its eighth year since launch, unit sales of both hardware and software decreased significantly year-on year,” reads the report.
There has still been some success this quarter, however, with both Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD reaching over a million sales: 1.76m units and 1.19m units respectively. Princess Peach: Showtime!, meanwhile, has sold over 1.3m units since its release in March.