Nintendo Switch 2 sales have dropped 37%, but it’s still comfortably beating the original console

Nintendo says Switch 2 sales slowed in its second year, falling 37.4% year on year in the first half of its financial year. Even so, the console has reached 26.35 million units sold and remains more than six million ahead of the original Switch and PlayStation 5 at the same point after launch.

Nintendo sold 2.68 million Switch 2 consoles in the three months to 30 September, while first-half sales across its dedicated gaming platform business fell 15.3%. Switch 2 software sales rose 18.8% to 24.49 million units; Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sold 8.81 million. The original Switch reached 157.20 million lifetime sales, against 160 million for the PlayStation 2, and Nintendo has kept its sales forecasts unchanged.