Nintendo Switch 2 sales fall 37.4% to 6.49 million in first half

Nintendo reported consolidated results for the cumulative first half of the fiscal year ending March 2027 on November 5, with Nintendo Switch 2 hardware sell-in at 6.49 million units, down 37.4% year on year, according to gamebiz.jp.

Nintendo Switch hardware sell-in came to 1.27 million units, down 32.7% year on year. On the software side, Nintendo Switch 2 titles reached 24.49 million units, up 18.8%, while Nintendo Switch software reached 65.73 million units, up 6.8%.

Among individual titles, Tomodachi Collection: Wakuwaku Life sold 8.81 million copies, Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars sold 2.89 million and Splatoon Raiders sold 2.42 million. Mario Kart World sold 1.78 million copies in the period.

Full-year targets

For the full fiscal year ending March 2027, Nintendo targets 16.5 million Nintendo Switch 2 units and 2 million Nintendo Switch units. The software plan calls for 60 million Nintendo Switch 2 units and 105 million Nintendo Switch units.

The Switch 2 launched in the previous fiscal year, and its first-half sales fell compared with that launch period. Mario Kart World was also released in the previous fiscal year, and a special-design edition for The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary arrived in October.