Game news The Switch explodes the counters! Nintendo reveals its figures and rubs its hands while waiting for the Switch 2!
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After months of uncertainty, the Nintendo Switch 2 has finally been officially mentioned, but for Nintendo, there is no question of throwing away its original hybrid console.
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Nintendo Switch 2 made official
It's a bit of an event of the week. That's it ! Finally the Switch 2 is officially mentioned by Nintendo. After months of waiting, the company finally revealed some valuable information. “We will hold a Nintendo Direct next June regarding the Nintendo Switch software range for the second half of 2024, but please note that there will be no mention of the successor to the Nintendo Switch during this presentation. » We grant you, it's a little thin, but talking about a console to say that we won't talk about it is enough to enthuse the crowds. From there, all you have to do is take your calendar and calculate the end of the current fiscal year, which allows us to asthma that the Switch 2 could be revealed by the spring 2025. Until then, Big N had remained very discreet regarding his succession, preferring to make full profit on the current hybrid console which still produces very good figures for its age and which will surely end its life very smoothly.
Nintendo Switch already dead?
We don't have a Switch 2 yet, but Nintendo still took advantage of it to proudly reveal your figures of the 2024 semester for the hybrid console. Thus, the machine would have shipped 1.96 million units this quarter, compared to 3.07 million units last year. Sales clearly in decline, but far from catastrophic for a machine that is seven years old. Nintendo had already planned this. More generally, during this fiscal year, 15.7 million units were distributed, for a total of 141.32 million worldwide'.
However, as we explained previously, it will still be some time before we see the sequel to the Nintendo Switch distributed to the general public. So BIG N still plans to sell in the meantime. The company still hopes to sell 13.5 million consoles until March 2025. If these calculations are correct, it would reach nearly 154 million units sold. It is possible that the machine will beat the Nintendo DS record, narrowly. On the other hand, she would still remain behind the legendary PS2 and its 155 and 160 million units sold.
If we go into details, it is especially the Nintendo Switch OLED, which sold the most during this financial year. 1.6 million units, or 59%. The classic Switch comes in second place (24%), followed by the lite (17%). On the gaming side, Mario and his friends continue to bring in revenue for BIG N. Princess Peach: Showtime! for example, shipped more than 1.22 million units in 10 days. Super Mario Bros. Wonder will soon reach 13.44 million copies sold. Only, unsurprisingly, it's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which continues to win everything. 20.61 million copies worldwide including 330,000 units this quarter. It becomes the second best game in the franchise, behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In general, the Nintendo Switch has definitely become a centerpiece for the license, because 40% of Zelda games (all titles combined) were sold on this onei.