Nintendo just lately supplied up to date gross sales figures for the Nintendo Swap and quite a few its first social gathering releases. As of December 31, the console has shipped over 122.55 million models worldwide, which implies it has now formally overtaken the lifetime gross sales of the PS4- although as has been the case with most {hardware}, the Swap has seen a slowdown in gross sales over the course of the fiscal interval.
In its newest quarterly fiscal report, the corporate said that it has shipped 14.91 million models of the Swap within the present fiscal yr’s first three quarters, which is down 21.3% year-on-year. In the meantime, complete software program gross sales for a similar interval stand at 172.11 million models, down 4% from final yr. Nintendo attributes these declines (for {hardware} gross sales particularly) to “a scarcity of semiconductors and different element provides that impacted manufacturing till round late summer time.”
As such, in its monetary presentation, the corporate has additionally confirmed that its decreasing forecasts for each software program and {hardware} gross sales for the present fiscal yr, which ends on March 31. The corporate now expects complete shipments for the Swap to hit 18 million models for the fiscal yr, which is down 5.3% from its earlier forecast of 19 million unis. In the meantime, it has additionally lowered its software program gross sales forecast for the interval by 2.4% to 205 million.
Whether or not this impacts Nintendo’s forecast for the upcoming fiscal yr stays to be seen, particularly given that offer shortages have eased up considerably over the previous few months. A latest report additionally claimed that the corporate has determined to extend Swap manufacturing and is anticipating sustained gross sales for the console to proceed for no less than one other yr.
