Nintendo: Switch sales fall almost 23 percent due to supply shortages

Nintendo has released its financial report for the first quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, reporting a decrease in both revenue and sales of Switch consoles established.

Nintendo is struggling with delivery bottlenecks

According to the quarterly report, the company’s overall sales fell 4.7 percent to $2.3 billion, mainly due to a decline in hardware sales. Between April and June 2022 were 3.43 million switch units sold to retail. That is a decrease of 22.9 percent compared to the previous year, which the company based on, among other things “the impact of supply shortages in semiconductors and other components” returns.

The decline in sales comes as no surprise, given that the company already experienced a 26 percent year-on-year decline in the past fiscal year, which is also due to the shortage of semiconductors. According to reports, there are still problems obtaining components for the consoles at the moment.

Sales of the consoles are still good

Despite the supply difficulties, the Japanese gaming company explained that demand for the Switch console, which is now in its sixth year since its release, “remains stable in all regions”.

Especially that OLED model seems to be the biggest seller for the company. Since the launch in October 2021, it has already been 7.3 million sold. In the last quarter of the fiscal year alone 1.5 million units over the counter, followed by the standard version with 1.3 million pieces. The regular console version has been selling since its launch in March 2017 111.08 million times.

Absolute blockbusters: Nintendo Switch Sports, Kirby and Mario Kart

Also what your own software is concerned, the company has had a good first quarter of the year so far. While retail game sales have declined year-on-year, the number of games sold to consumers has increased. That’s because the digital sales of the games increased by 16 percent are.

The past quarter also marked the second-highest first quarter of proprietary title sales since the Switch’s launch. The largest first quarter was April through June 2020 after the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the outbreak of the pandemic has boosted sales.

was earlier this year Nintendo Switch Sports the best-selling game of the quarter. Of these, 4.84 million units have been sold since the release in April 2022. Additionally, three other games sold well: Mario Strikers: Battle League with 1.91 million copies, Kirby and the forgotten land with 1.88 million and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with 1.48 million.

The game maker also confirmed that “Kirby and the Forgotten Land” is the best-selling “Kirby” game in the history of the series with a total of 4.53 million units sold. Meanwhile, “Mario Kart 8” is the biggest-selling game of all time for the Switch with 46.82 million copies sold.

The company also reported that subscriptions for Nintendo Switch Online and the expansion pack have increased, although it did not give any figures on this. For the rest of the year, the game maker hopes to boost sales from new releases like Xenoblades Chronicles 3, Splatoon 3such as Pokémon Crimson & Crimson to boost.