Nintendo released its financial results from the first half of the financial year 2025 yesterday, revealing declining software and hardware sales compared to last year. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa fielded questions at a corresponding financial meeting, revealing his thoughts on the decline of Nintendo Switch sales ahead of the impending Switch 2 announcement.
In an interview with the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun (translated by SpiritDusk on ResetEra), Furukawa theorised the declining sales of the Nintendo Switch are not due to the presence of an upcoming successor, but rather because the hardware is in its eighth year of being on sale.
"I can't say it doesn't exist at all, but the Switch is already in its eighth year since launch. I don't think the presence or absence of a successor will have much impact on customers who are purchasing it at this timing," Furukawa said of potential customer hesitance regarding a successor. Essentially, Furukawa is saying that the people buying a Nintendo Switch so late in its lifespan aren't going to care about the idea of a successor coming out next year because they've already waited eight years to buy the predecessor.
Yesterday's financial results revealed Nintendo sold 4.72 million hardware...
