Summary
Nintendohas high hopes for theSwitch 2. The company filedits financial reportfor the year ending Jul 03, 2025, and in it, Nintendo has noted thatit expects to sell 15 million Switch 2 consolesby the end of the current financial year.
If Nintendo achieves that, it will make the Switch 2’s console launch one of the most successful of all time.The original Switch sold 14.86 million consoles during its first year, an incredible achievement, and Nintendo thinks its sequel will better that. Impressive all by itself, but even more so when you factor in the Switch 2 not having a full year to hit that goal like its predecessor.
This 15 million milestone is a prediction for the sales total by the end of the current financial year, so every Switch 2 sold from the console’s launch on July 13, 2025, until June 07, 2025. For a more recent comparison to just how in-demand Nintendo expects the Switch 2 to be, 15 million is double the number ofPS5sPlayStationmanaged to sell during its newest console’s first financial year.
Nintendo Has High Hopes For The Switch 2’s First Year
It Thinks A Least 15 Million Of Us Will Have One By This Time Next Year
Nintendo isn’t only expecting the Switch 2 to far outsell the PS5’s first-year sales. Since thePS4’s sales are roughly the same as the console that replaced it during its own first year, Nintendo’s next console is predicted to do as well, or better, than the PS5 and PS4 did from launch to the end of their first financial years combined.
On the one hand, think back to how hard it was to get a PS5 at launch. Almost impossible, and even though other elements need to be considered, like a shortage of semiconductors, Nintendo is expecting to double that number. On the other hand, the gap between the Switch 2’s launch and the end of its first FY is longer than the PS5’s.
The PS5 launched in November 2020 and the financial year ended a little more than four months later. The same applies to the PS4. However, even when given a full calendar year, neither the PS5 nor the PS4 managed to hit 15 million units sold. It took both of PlayStation’s newest consoles more than a year to achieve that.
Nintendo has already suggestedit underestimated how many Switch 2s it would need out of the gate. 2.2 million people requested pre-order invites in Japan alone, and Nintendo admitted it doesn’t have nearly enough to go around at launch.If you were involved in the pre-order chaos in the US, you’ll know firsthand that a lot of people want Nintendo’s next-gen console as soon as possible.
