Nintendo predicts record-breaking Switch 2 launch, and Switch 1 to outsell PS2 this year

Nintendo has forecast 15 million sales for Nintendo Switch 2 during its launch window, which would make it the fastest-selling games console ever.

In its forecast for the next fiscal year, ending March 2026, Nintendo predicts that it will sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles at 45 million games.

This would far exceed the 11 million consoles sold by Switch in its first business year (and it launched earlier in the year). PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 launched later in the year, and sold around 7.5 million units each, with the latter suffering stock issues due to the pandemic.

In its results for the year ended March 2025, Nintendo reports that it sold 15.7 million Nintendo Switch consoles, bringing its life time total to 152.1 million – just shy of its best-selling system ever, Nintendo DS (154m).

Nintendo predicts it will sell a further 10.8m original Switch consoles in the current business year, which ends April 2026, which would make it the best-selling console in history, beating PlayStation 2 (160m).

Year-on-year, Switch hardware sales are down more than 30%, and software sales are down 22%. The company says it’s number of annual playing users remains above 100 million.

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