Overview
- Nintendo reports 155.37 million Switch units sold as of December 31, 2025, surpassing the Nintendo DS total of 154.02 million.
- Switch 2, launched in June 2025, has sold about 17.37 million units, with the company expecting 19 million by the end of March 2026.
- Sales of the original Switch fell to 3.25 million units in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026, down from 9.54 million a year earlier, reflecting a generational shift.
- Executives and analysts attribute the platform’s sustained success to its innovative hybrid design that combined Nintendo’s handheld and TV console audiences.
- Nintendo flags rising memory and chip costs in 2026 as a potential pressure on hardware economics for the new generation.