Nintendo’s Switch console has now passed 132m units sold, but the company is remaining silent on its successor.
According to Nintendo’s latest report detailing sales over the last financial quarter, Switch sales are still going strong. Unit sales for the Switch family of consoles rose 2.4 percent year-on-year, with the OLED model the most popular. A further 4.69m Switch OLEDs were sold, as clearly players are willing to spend extra on the improved screen, or to simply upgrade from the older model.
On a conference call after the earnings release, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa refused to comment on plans for a Switch successor, despite rumours of a 2024 release.
“The Switch is different from past hardware,” said Furukawa (thanks, Bloomberg). “It has the ability to give rise to different kinds of new demand.”
The sales figures show the Switch is closing in on the Nintendo DS to become the company’s top-selling console, but it’s still some way behind the handheld’s 154m sales.
In terms of software, Pikmin 4 has sold 2.61m units to become the top-selling game in the series. Japan is responsible for 1.36m of those sales, proving the series popularity in Nintendo’s home country. Considering Pikmin 1 and 2 were released on the GameCube and Pikmin 3 was on the WiiU, both with considerably less hardware sales than the Switch, these figures aren’t hugely surprising.