Nintendo Switch 2 is on the horizon, but the original is still selling like it's being given away

We know you are waiting for the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2. So are we. Nintendo, too. That’s why it has made so many announcements over the past two weeks when, normally, it wouldn’t have announced anything. Because it knows it has everyone’s attention. Something that has a bit of cruelty, even if it gives us our own Nintendo Spotify. But they have good reasons. And the fact is that no matter how much we wait for its successor, the Nintendo Switch continues to sell as if it were going out of style.

According to the figures reported by Nintendo in its latest quarterly results, between June 30 and September 30, 2024, 2.62 million Switch units and 39.64 million games for the console were sold. This means that the console has already sold 146.04 million units worldwide, achieving absolutely staggering numbers for a console in its eighth year of life.

That doesn’t mean that Nintendo isn’t having to readjust their expectations for the current fiscal year. Having initially planned to sell 13.5 million units for the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025, they have reduced these expectations to the still quite impressive figure of 12.5 million units. An absolutely staggering figure for a console that already has more than 140 million units in the market, but with Black Friday and the holiday season ahead, it’s far from being something crazy or impossible. Not for Nintendo.

Similarly, we have learned for the first time the figures that the new Nintendo games are making. The big winner has been The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, with 2.58 million units sold. Closely following are Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, selling 1.94 and 1.57 million respectively during this period, making the former surpass the total sales it had during its original release on GameCube. Thus proves the incredible strength of the Nintendo Switch.

Although the expectations from now on for the console are already declining, as we have said, the numbers are still staggering. Nintendo Switch still has plenty of life to last up to a year in the market on its own, if Nintendo needs it, and that’s why we shouldn’t be surprised if they don’t rush not only to announce its successor but also to launch it. So, for now…Patience. Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive. It just doesn’t seem like it’s going to be any time soon.