Nintendo Switch on course to become third highest selling console ever despite sales dip
Kirby And The Forgotten Land and Nintendo Switch Sports have both been bigger than expected hits, even as Switch console sales fall by 23%.
Given the fall in sales reported by both Microsoft and Sony, it was obvious that Nintendo was going to have the same problem with the Switch, since the whole of the games industry is currently experiencing a decline.
That’s in part because of the comedown from the heights of the lockdown, when everyone was stuck inside, but also because of the lack of new games at the moment – which is also a knock-on effect of the pandemic.
As ever, Nintendo’s situation has been different from other hardware manufacturers, as they released very little during the pandemic but have had quiet a busy year so far, and that’s reflected by their financial results.
Between April and June, which is usually a dead period of the year at the best of times, they still managed to have four first party games that sold over a million copies each.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (which is getting new DLC this week) sold another 1.48 million for a lifetime total of 46.82 million, which as impressive as it is has become the expected norm by this point.
On top of this, and despite several attempts to revive Wii Sports in the past, it seems Nintendo Switch Sports is the first to see any major success, with an impressive 4.84 million sales in its first three months.
Mario Strikers: Battle League Football also did surprisingly well, with 1.91 million sales, but it’s Kirby And The Forgotten Land which has been the real surprise, as after decades of middling sales for the series Forgotten Land’s lifetime total is now 4.53 million – with 1.88 million copies sold in the last three months.
Nintendo has an even stronger second half of the year,
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