Nintendo presents its latest financial report (Q2 / FY2021) and declares sales of more than 6.85 million Nintendo Switch this summer.
Nintendo Switch has reached 68.30 million units sold. Nintendo Co., Ltd. has revealed during the presentation of the financial results for the second quarter of the current fiscal year (Q2 / FY2021), which will end on March 31, 2021, that its current video game platform has added 6.85 consoles to the global computation during the period from July 1 to September 30.
After a spring quarter of true records, especially accentuated by the growing demand for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite during the pandemic and an Animal Crossing: New Horizons set to break all the company’s records of the last decade, those in Kyoto sign a sensational summer even in software, where they registered sales of 49.82 million games.
Nintendo Switch manages to sell 456.49 million games in three and a half years.
6.85 million Nintendo Switch units sold this summer
The company led by Shuntaro Furuwaka may celebrate one of its best Q3s in recent times and shows very positive signs regarding the fulfillment of the annual sales forecast, which stands at 24 million units sold; well above the forecast they had back in May, with 19 million units. If so, we can talk about a platform around 80 million units at the end of this fiscal year, which would make it really easy for Nintendo Switch to overcome the barrier of 100 million consoles worldwide in a matter of year and medium.
In the midst of the incipient implementation of Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite is the launch of the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, PS5 and Xbox Series X | S, which may encourage the Japanese firm, according to different market analysts, to production of an improved model of the current hybrid solution. However, during the presentation of these financial results, no details about a future redesign have transpired; Nintendo’s business strategy currently involves continuing to enrich the video game catalog of its two models.
Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite; the latter, a portable option only.
If we look at each model of the Nintendo Switch family independently, we see that the predominant one remains quarterly and globally the hybrid option, the original, capable of undocking its Joy-Con and playing in portable mode or on a television. In total, since 2017 it has sold 57.93 million units, while Nintendo Switch Lite, which is now celebrating its first anniversary in the market, has already sold 10.36 million units, with a percentage rate of quarterly growth especially in Japan, where the lack The stock of the hybrid model and the portable-only nature of the latter has sparked greater interest over time.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to break records
If you look at software, Animal Crossing: New Horizons reaches 26.04 million units sold worldwide and remains the second best-selling video game on Nintendo Switch to date, only behind the fireproof Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which reaches the 28.99 million copies shipped. The podium is closed by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with 21.10 million units, just ahead of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 19.74 million and and Pokémon Sword and Shield, whose 19.02 million copies are the best records of the series of the last two decades.
