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Nintendo lowers forecast as Switch sales weaken

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo reported a drop in profit and a lower forecast for future quarters as its Switch hybrid console saw a sales slowdown.

Nintendo sold 14.9 million Switch consoles in the nine months ended December 31, down from 18.9 million units a year earlier. To date, the Nintendo Switch has sold more than 122.5 million to date and 994 million copies of software.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.