Nintendo has already offered 5.82 million Change 2s because the console went on sale on June sixth and nonetheless expects to promote 15 million models by the top of its fiscal 12 months in March 2026, the corporate mentioned in its newest earnings report. If that pans out, the Change 2 would simply outsell the unique Change, which took a full 12 months to hit that very same 15 million gross sales quantity — making it a uncommon brilliant spot in at the moment’s gaming world.
Regardless of these very good gross sales figures, Nintendo notes that demand is outstripping provide in lots of areas and promised to spice up manufacturing and provide as quickly as attainable. A key indicator of that’s that its “sell-through” determine (orders from customers) is at present at greater than 6 million models, so fairly just a few of us that ordered a Change 2 have not acquired one but. Nintendo additionally famous that it nonetheless offered practically 1,000,000 of the unique Switches as nicely.
Change 2 software program gross sales have been additionally sturdy with 8.67 million models offered, thanks largely to the corporate’s Change 2 Mario Kart World bundle together with Donkey Kong Bananza and video games from outdoors publishers (Nintendo additionally simply introduced a bunch of recent third-party video games coming quickly). The corporate additionally offered 24.4 million video games designed for the unique Change, largely as a result of the brand new console is backwardly suitable with earlier Change titles, it mentioned.
All of that meant that Nintendo had an excellent quarter, greater than doubling income over final 12 months to 572.3 billion yen ($3.8 billion) with a 56.9 billion yen revenue ($378 million). The corporate nonetheless expects to herald 1.9 trillion yen ($12.6 billion) for its fiscal 12 months.


