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There’s simply no stopping the mighty Swap!
Immediately, Nintendo has launched its nine-month earnings report, formally confirming that the overall {hardware} gross sales for the Swap have now exceeded the Recreation Boy, inserting the hybrid console firmly in second place behind the Nintendo DS (oh, and it is also now outsold the PlayStation 4, which managed 117.2 million throughout its lifetime).
Coming in at 122.55 million items in complete over its lifetime, the Swap offered a powerful 14.91 million items throughout FY 2023, and whereas that is an total drop of 21.3% when in comparison with FY 2022, the Swap OLED Mannequin loved a major enhance in gross sales, rising by 92.5%.
Here is how the Swap offered in FY 2023 by {hardware} SKU:
Nintendo Swap – 5.22 million items (-55.7%)
Nintendo Switch – OLED Mannequin – 7.69 million items (+92.5%)
Nintendo Swap Lite – 2 million items (-37%)
Now, let’s check out precisely the place the Swap stands in opposition to Nintendo’s different consoles:
Console | Complete Gross sales |
---|---|
DS | 154.02 Million |
Swap | 122.55 Million |
Recreation Boy | 118.69 Million |
Wii | 101.63 Million |
Recreation Boy Advance | 81.51 Million |
3DS | 75.94 Million |
Household Laptop / NES | 61.91 Million |
Tremendous Household Laptop / SNES | 49.10 Million |
N64 | 32.93 Million |
GameCube | 21.74 Million |
Wii U | 13.56 Million |
As for why the Swap did not promote fairly so nicely in 2023, Nintendo states that that is primarily because of the scarcity of semiconductors and different part provides, which apparently affected {hardware} manufacturing till round later Summer time. Software program gross sales additionally fell by a complete of seven% and Nintendo reckons that that is additionally partially because of the decline in {hardware} gross sales. Plus, y’know, it is a six 12 months previous console!
It is nonetheless a exceptional achievement for Nintendo, and it has us questioning simply how shut the Swap will get to the Nintendo DS over the following couple of years. Logically, Nintendo will preserve the Swap in circulation even when it introduces its eventual successor, so we have our fingers crossed that it would wind up being the top-selling Nintendo console of all time. Stranger issues have occurred!
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