Nintendo’s handheld launched on March 3, 2017, at a time when home consoles from Microsoft and Sony were all about power and smartphones were dominating mobile gaming.
TL;DR: The glory days of record Nintendo Switch sales appear to be firmly in the rear view. In its latest earnings report, Nintendo revealed it sold 17.98 million Switch handhelds for the year ending March 31. That’s down 22.1 percent from the 23.06 million units sold last year, and the forecast for next year isn’t looking any better as Nintendo expects to sell 15 million consoles through the end of March 2024.
Nintendo’s handheld launched on March 3, 2017, at a time when home consoles from Microsoft and Sony were all about power and smartphones were dominating mobile gaming.
