The Nintendo Switch sold more than 100 million units and surpassed the Wii. The company rules out an acquisition in the coming months.
Nintendo detailed the company’s plans for the coming months at a recent shareholders meeting. Furthermore, it was confirmed that Switch surpassed Wii with 103 million units sold to date.
There will be no acquisitions
With the purchase of Activision-Blizzard by microsoft Y Bungie by Sony, the industry looks to Nintendo and wonders if he will make his own move. However, the president of Nintendo, Shuntaro FurukawaHe said the company would not benefit from buying other studios. “Our brand was built on products made with dedication by our employees, and having a large number of people who don’t have any Nintendo DNA in our group would not be to the company’s advantage.” declared to shareholders. In 2021, Nintendo acquired Next Level Games, a study that worked for 20 years with the brand.
Nintendo Switch has many more years left
On the other hand, in the meeting with investors, Nintendo I affirm that switch is located at “half of its life cycle” and that it has sold more than 100 million units so far, despite the fact that the pace of sales has slowed in the last 12 months, probably due to the shortage of chips that also affected sales of Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S and even graphics cards. “The imposed for this year is good. The Switch is poised to break a pattern of our past consoles that saw momentum falter in its sixth year on the market and grow bigger.” He said Furukawa.
The fifth best-selling console in history
With 103.54 million units sold, Switch becomes the fifth best-selling console in history, after PlayStation 4 (116 million), game boy (118 million), nintendo ds (154 million) and Playstation 2 (155 million). Statistics also confirm that he surpassed nintendo wii (101 million) and playstation one (102 million), in addition to being “half of its life cycle”, it is likely that it will climb a few more steps in the TOP of sold consoles. Of course, the most important point in the sales of switch is that it had some reversals since its arrival in 2017: in the last 9 months it sold 11.79 million models standard, 3.9 million OLED and 3.17 million Lite.