The Nintendo Switch 2 has already reached 26.35 million units shipped, but Nintendo still needs about 10 million more by March 2027 to hit its full-year forecast. According to the company, it sold 6.49 million in the six months to September, down 37.4% from 10.36 million a year earlier.
The year-ago period held the console’s June 2025 launch, so that’s a hard comparison, not a collapse. Nintendo counts units sold to corporate business partners plus direct sales to consumers, so some of those consoles may still be on store shelves.
Its forecast for the year ending March 31st, 2027, hasn’t moved since May 8th: 16.5 million Switch 2 units. By our count, that leaves about 10 million more to go, which is more than the 9.5 million in the same six months last year, and that included the console’s first holiday season.
Nintendo has to get there at higher prices. Switch 2 rose to $499.99 (about Php 31,700) from $449.99 in the US on September 1st, and Nintendo’s May briefing set rises for Japan and Europe too. It says all of them are already in the forecast.
The memory crunch is in there too. The forecast carries an impact of about ¥100 billion (about $630M or Php 40 billion) on cost of sales “due to rising component prices, particularly for memory, and tariff measures,” the same figure Nintendo gave in May.
Switch 2 software rose 18.8% to 24.49 million units, even with fewer consoles going out. Nintendo’s best seller of the period was an original Switch game, though: Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sold 8.81 million, against 2.42 million for Splatoon Raiders, its top Switch 2 game.
Net sales fell 12.1% to ¥966.0 billion (about $6.1B or Php 387 billion), but operating profit rose 49.1% to ¥216.5 billion (about $1.37B or Php 87 billion). Nintendo credits software’s bigger share of sales and a refund of about $300M (about Php 19 billion) in US tariffs it says it mostly absorbed itself.
Nintendo’s second half includes a Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition of the console, on sale since October, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, out now. Last year, October to December alone brought 7.01 million consoles, so this quarter should carry most of the 10 million.
