Nintendo expects to sell only 15 million Switch consoles over the next year
and 18 million in the last year, Nintendo expects demand for the aging console to continue to fall. It's forecasting sales of 15 million for next year and isn't even confident of that figure, the company announced in its latest."Sustaining the Switch’s sales momentum will be difficult in its seventh year," said President Shuntaro Furukawa in a call."Our goal of selling 15 million unit this fiscal year is a bit of stretch.
To achieve that, the company said that it will focus on selling second and even third consoles to people who already own one."We try to not only put one system in every home, but several in every home, or even one for every person." For the last full year , the company saw sales drop 5.5 percent from 1.695 trillion yen to $1.601 trillion yen , while profit dropped 14.9 percent to 504.3 billion yen . Net sales for its last quarter were down 18 percent year-over-year to 306.5 billion yen , indicating that it's on a slippery downward slope.
Switch sales for the quarter were 3.06 million , one of the company's worst sales quarters for the console to date. However, Nintendo did predict this would happen, sayingSubscribe to the Engadget Deals Newsletter Great deals on consumer electronics delivered straight to your inbox, curated by Engadget’s editorial team.
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