Stuck between a rock and a global chip shortage.
Nintendo’s report for the 2021/22 financial year dropped today, and while Switch continues to sell well and software sales are looking healthy, signs that enthusiasm for the five-year-old system is beginning to ebb are also apparent. To be clear, the results present a far from gloomy outlook for the console and company, but the numbers show a year-on-year sales decline of 20% and the company forecasts further drops for the coming year.
In real numbers, lifetime Switch sales now stand at 107.65 million units, with just over 23 million of those coming in the last year. That’s a very sturdy figure — and sell-through (meaning the number of units actually sold to consumers at retail, as opposed to the number shipped to retail outlets) of the console in the last financial year is second only to the console’s launch year. Digital sales increased 4.5% over FY 2021, too, with the January-March ’22 period recording the second-highest digital sales quarter ever — just shy of the preceding lucrative Holiday ’21 season. It’s certainly not all doom and gloom in Kyoto right now.
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