Nintendo has revealed it had bought 15.7 million Nintendo Swap consoles throughout its 2024 fiscal 12 months, bringing complete lifetime gross sales to 141.32. Whereas that is lower than what it managed the 12 months earlier than, Nintendo nonetheless appears happy with the outcomes, however intends to push a minimum of one other 13.5 million items by the top of subsequent March.

This information comes from a monetary report printed by Nintendo on Might 7, which says Swap gross sales for the 2024 fiscal 12 months are down in comparison with the 12 months earlier than, however that’s to be anticipated contemplating the console’s over seven years previous. Whereas the corporate is often reserved about its plans for the long run, it has shared its forecasts for the 2025 fiscal 12 months, alongside an announcement for its subsequent console, which will probably be correctly unveiling within the subsequent 12 months and is rumoured to be launching in 2025.

Nintendo’s forecast for the 2024 fiscal 12 months included 15.5 million Swap items bought (per CNBC), which it nearly managed. As such, it’s predicting a smaller quantity for the 2025 fiscal 12 months (which covers April 2024 to March 2025). Nonetheless, 13.5 million gross sales remains to be surprisingly massive contemplating the console’s age and the actual fact folks are actually feverishly ready for the Swap 2 (or no matter it’s truly referred to as). Dr Serkan Toto, CEO of recreation business consultancy Kantan Video games has described it as a “very aggressive goal” in an announcement to VGC.

“You by no means know with Nintendo, but it surely appears like they’re treating 2024 as a bridge 12 months earlier than the brand new console comes out. 13.5 million items is a really aggressive goal for {hardware} gross sales that late within the life cycle, so it both has some bangers to be launched this fiscal or it is going to lastly lower costs in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future,” mentioned Toto. At the moment, Nintendo’s solely first-party titles scheduled to launch this 12 months are the Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door remake (which is out this month) and the Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD remaster. It additionally has Pokémon Legends: Z-A, which is deliberate for 2025, in addition to Metroid Prime 4 although that recreation nonetheless lacks any type of launch window

The corporate clearly has unannounced titles deliberate for the second half of 2024 however, as Toto mentioned, they’ll need to be one thing particular to get new prospects to purchase a Swap forward of its successor. Both that or slash costs, which it might very nicely do to make the present Swap an attractive different to the following console. Nintendo’s report even mentions the way it needs to “not solely put one system in each house, however a number of in each house, and even one for each individual.”

There’s no telling if Nintendo might pull such a feat off however, if it does meet its 13.5 million gross sales goal, that’ll push the Swap’s lifetime gross sales to simply below 155 million. As such, it might doubtlessly overtake the Nintendo DS’ lifetime gross sales of 154.02 million, thus making the Swap the best-selling Nintendo console of all time. This might nonetheless place it beneath the PlayStation 2. That factor stays the best-selling online game console of all time, with it believed to have pushed about 160 million items based on former PlayStation boss Jim Ryan (per VGC).