Nintendo sells 5 million Switches in six months ended September 30, game copies up 91%

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 30, 2018
Updated June 19, 2025
1 min

Nintendo sold 5.07 million Switch hybrid consoles in the first half of 2018, but revenues grew only 4 percent to $3.9 billion in the six months ended September 30.

The Kyoto, Japan-based company said profit was $815 million, up 32 percent from a year earlier. Nintendo said it would not change its previous forecast for the fiscal year.

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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.