Nintendo raises Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units after strong launch

On 4 November 2025, Nintendo published results for the first half of its fiscal year, which runs to March 2026. The Kyoto-based company said it had sold 10.36 million Switch 2 consoles between April and September, following the system's launch on 5 June 2025.

Alongside the figures, Nintendo raised its hardware forecast for the full fiscal year from 15 million to 19 million Switch 2 units. The company pointed to strong demand across major markets, including Japan and the United States, and to a steady flow of software, with titles such as Mario Kart World helping drive console purchases.

The update mattered because the Switch 2 was Nintendo's first new home console in eight years, and investors had questioned whether it could match the success of the original Switch. The higher forecast signalled that the launch was going better than the company had planned, and it set the benchmark against which later quarterly results would be judged.