This morning, Nintendo reported its quarterly and half-year results for 2025, covering the period from April to September, and revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 is already outselling its predecessor.
As of September 30, the new hybrid handheld console has sold 10.36 million units, significantly outpacing the original Switch (which took about ten months to sell a similar amount of units). When it comes to Nintendo Switch 2 software sales, they have reached 20.62 million units, meaning that there's an average of nearly two Switch 2 games per unit.
Mario Kart World, the big launch exclusive, predictably secured the lion's share of the software sales, selling 9.57 million units. Donkey Kong Bananza also sold pretty well, achieving 3.49 million units from July to September.
In light of these promising results, Nintendo has revised its previous conservative forecast of 15 million units sold by the end of the fiscal year (March 2026). It now forecasts 19 million Nintendo Switch 2 units sold in the console's first year on the market. If achieved, it will be all the more remarkable because it happened under the shadow of the US tariffs. For example, DFC Intelligence previously revised its original 17 million units forecast down to 15 million specifically due to that ongoing issue.
During the reported timeframe, the original Nintendo Switch sold 1.89 million hardware units and 61.56 million software units. The full-year forecast for the older console was slightly reduced from 4.5 million units to 4 million, although software units are now estimated to reach 125 million copies, up from the 105 million copies of the previous forecast. Overall, the Nintendo Switch has sold 154 million units since its launch in March 2017. At this rate, it seems unlikely it will ever reach the 160.6 million units sold by Sony's PlayStation 2, the best-selling console of all time, but it probably doesn't matter that much to Nintendo.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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