3.5 million to go

IDK about a rush before the price rise for SW1 but the negative impact of the price rise won't have hit this quarters shipments. The price rise wasn't until the end of may and if you take into account the lag between consumer sales and shipments it won't really have been reflected.

A combination of pre-price rise in Japan and the launch of Tomodachi will mean next quarter will be much lower for SW1.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream was the best selling game of Q1

Nintendo's earnings release for the 1st quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31st 2027 has been published, this covers the three month period from April 1st to June 2026. Nintendo shipped 3.82 million units of Switch 2 hardware and 9.46 million units of Switch 2 software bringing it's lifetime totals to 23.68m for hardware and 58.17 million for software.

Nintendo shipped 0.67 million units of Switch hardware and 33.81 million units of Switch software bringing lifetime totals to 156.59 million units for hardware and 1561.95 million units for software.

Two titles sold over one million units this quarter, this was new release Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (7.96 million) and Pokemon Pokopia (1.27 million).

For the Current fiscal year Nintendo has Maintained it's forecasts of 16.50 million for Switch 2 hardware and 60.00 million for Switch 2 software.

For the Current fiscal year Nintendo has Maintained it's forecasts of 2.00 million for Switch hardware and 105.00 million for Switch software.


Switch 2 Hardware

Switch 2 Hardware Q1: 3.82m
Regional Split Q1: Japan 1.04m, Americas 1.22m, Europe 0.96m, Other 0.59m

Switch 2 Hardware Total: 23.68m
Regional Split Total: Japan 6.70m, Americas 7.95m, Europe 5.37m, Other 3.66m

Global Shipment History (millions)

Switch 2 Software

Switch 2 Software Q1: 9.46m
Regional Split Q1: Japan 2.99m, Americas 3.50m, Europe 2.03m, Other 0.94m
Tie Ratio Q1: 2.48

Switch 2 Software Total: 58.71m
Regional Split Total: Japan 16.16m, Americas 20.98m, Europe 14.40m, Other 6.63m
Tie Ratio Total: 2.46

Global Shipment History (millions)

Switch Hardware

Switch Hardware Q1: 0.67m
Regional Split Q1: Japan 210k, Americas 200k, Europe 110k, Other 150k
Model Variants Q1: Standard 170k, Lite 180k, Oled 320k

Switch Hardware Total: 156.59m
Regional Split Total: Japan 38.55m, Americas 59.81m, Europe 40.14m, Other 18.09m
Model Variants Total: Standard 97.78m, Lite 26.59m, Oled 32.22m

Global Shipment History (millions)

Switch Software

Switch Software Q1: 33.81m
Regional Split Q1: Japan 8.55m, Americas 14.24m, Europe 7.91m, Other 3.12m
Tie Ratio Q1: 50.46

Switch Software Total: 1561.95m
Regional Split Total: Japan 310.55m, Americas 676.43m, Europe 451.78m, Other 123.19m
Tie Ratio Total: 9.97

Global Shipment History (millions)

Switch Software Top 10

Total sales followed by the previous total then sales added to the total in Q1

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 71.53m (71.08m) + 450k
• Animal Crossing New Horizons: 50.29m (49.91m) + 380k
• Super Smash Bros Ultimate: 38.14m (37.76m) + 380k
• Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild: 34.06m (33.84m) + 220k
• Super Mario Odyssey: 30.80m (30.50m) + 300k
• Pokémon Scarlet/Violet: 28.46m (28.28m) + 180k
• Pokémon Sword/Shield: 27.26m (27.16m) + 100k
• Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: 22.71m (22.56m) + 150k
• Super Mario Party: 21.36m (21.32m) + 40k
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 19.10m (18.96m) + 140k

Other

• Tomodachi Life Living The Dream: 7.96m New!

Switch 2

• Mario Kart World: 15.39m (14.70m) + 690k
• Donkey Kong Bonanza: 4.78m (4.52m) + 260k
• Pokemon Legends ZA: 3.99m (3.94m) + 50k
• Pokemon Pokopia: 3.68m (2.41m) + 1.27m (Excluding Japan)
• Kirby Air Riders: 1.90m (1.87m) + 30k
• Super Mario Party Jamborie Switch 2 Edition: 1.15m New! (since July 2025)

Reminder that because of the way Nintendo counts the sales of Switch 2 edition games, only the physical edition sales are counted towards the Switch 2 version of the game.

So 1.15m physical copies of Jamboree SW2 is pretty impressive imo.

Nintendogs, where you at when we need you? 😔

Splatoon raiders seems to be selling pretty well at the moment and Pokopia sales are still high.

This number is incorrect. The 1.27 million figure is for units sold this quarter outside of Japan. Japanese numbers are closer to 2 million.

Looks like they are on track to slightly exceed Switch2 forecast. I think 17m is doable.

Switch1 forecast remain to be seen with the discontinuation in Europe. It was 110K units the last quarter in this region of a total of 660K. Not the biggest piece of Switch1 sales, but after discontinuation would give an approx 400K yearly gap.

Switch Lite decreased the least both absolute as percentage wise, as would be expected. This one will soldier one for a longgggg time one would suspect.

I don't think the upcoming Switch2 price increase will have a huge effect since it's a much smaller increase compared to Playstation/Xbox. The biggest Switch2 increase was the Japan only model which already happened.

A strong quarter for sure with the Switch 2 nearly at 4m and the Switch 1 doing better than expected only being just over 30% down and outpacing the equivalent quarter for the DS which is quite notable. On the other hand both will of course do worse the next quarter since sales in Japan have slowed down drastically for them and the Switch 1 had its last really big release. Either way this means they'll have no trouble hitting their hardware forecasts.

Hardware is amazing but software is a concern, just 9.46 million sold this quarter compared to 16.41 million for Switch 1 in it's equivalent quarter. After five quarters Switch 2 totals 58.17 million games sold compared to 68.97 million for Switch 1. The Switch 1 had a much lower installbase at this stage but was averaging 3.88 games per console (68.97 divided by 17.79) versus 2.45 games per console for Switch 2 (58.17 divided by 23.68). These $70 and $80 Nintendo games aren't selling like the evergreens did on Switch 1, in fact the legs of these games are really poor by Nintendo's standards.