{"id":77660,"date":"2026-05-08T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77660"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:36:35","slug":"why-nintendo-expects-fewer-second-year-switch-2-hardware-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77660","title":{"rendered":"Why Nintendo Expects Fewer Second-Year Switch 2 Hardware Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Nintendo foresees Switch 2 hardware sales declining during the system&#8217;s second year of availability&#8211;an unusual development for successful games systems. This comes as the hybrid console has already sold almost 20 million units in 10 months, but with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-officially-getting-a-price-hike-in-september\/1100-6539854\/\">a price hike waiting in the wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2026\/260508_5e.pdf\">The company behind Mario explained why fiscal 2027&#8217;s<\/a> (April 1-March 31, 2027) forecast sees a reduction in Switch 2 sales, with the current estimate at 16.5 million units sold. Nintendo offered the following reasons for the reduction: &#8220;In light of the strong sales performance in the first year following launch and price adjustments, we expect unit sales for the fiscal year ending March 2027 to decline year-over-year. That said, we view this as a healthy level of sales for Nintendo Switch 2 in its second year after launch, and we continue to anticipate further growth in its installed base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Intriguingly, the major launch-year success for Switch 2 caught Nintendo a bit off-guard. The company even admitted that the system&#8217;s sales &#8220;reached a level we had not experienced with any of our previous hardware systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This checks out, as Nintendo originally predicted Switch 2 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-2-continues-to-be-a-massive-hit-selling-over-10-million-units-in-six-months\/1100-6535903\/\">sell 15 million units in its first fiscal year before increasing the prediction<\/a> in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo foresees Switch 2 hardware sales declining during the system&#8217;s second year of availability&#8211;an unusual development for successful games systems. This comes as the hybrid console has already sold almost 20 million units in 10 months, but with a price hike waiting in the wings. The company behind Mario explained why fiscal 2027&#8217;s (April 1-March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":77662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77663,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77660\/revisions\/77663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}