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Nintendo sells 4.82M Switch consoles in holiday quarter, down 30.1%

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, with hardware sales of the Switch hitting 4.82 million units, down 30.1% from the same quarter a year ago.

Clearly, we’re starting to get an Osborne situation here, where Nintendo has announced its Switch 2 game console now and Switch sales are just going to keep going down from here.

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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.