- Nintendo President Shantaro Frokawa says Switch 2 has a factor for the high -cost company’s 15 million units of sales prediction
- Frokawa says hardware production capacity and US prices boundaries were no factor
- Nintendo is also expected to sell 45 million units in Switch 2 software, excluding copies Mario Cart World Switch 2 is included in the bundle
Nintendo President Shantaro Frokawa has said that the expected sales expected for Nintendo Switch 2 are due to the high cost of the console.
After his financial report last week, where Nintendo said he expected to sell 15 million switch 2 console during his launch window last week (Via VGC), Then investors have asked the company why it predicted less sales than some analysts expected.
“We are predicting the sale of 15 million units of Nintendo Switch 2 hardware for this fiscal year,” Frookawa said in a new. Question and answer Published today. “We have determined with the purpose of spreading the data to the same level that we received with the Nintendo Switch in March 2017 and December between its launch in about 10 months.”
Frookawa also said that the high cost of the console is an important factor of $ 449.99 / 5 395.99 its predictions, but that its backward compatibility and software bundles will increase sales before the end of the first fiscal year.
The president of Nintendo explained, “The price of Nintendo Switch 2 is relatively high than the Nintendo Switch, so we recognize that there are similar challenges to adopt initially.” “It is said that Nintendo Switch 2 can play 2 compatible Nintendo Switch software, so there is a continuity between the platform. We are taking steps to accelerate adoption in the first financial year, such as bundling software with hardware, which aims to get the same launch.”
Frookawa said that the limits of hardware production capacity were not “a factor” in the prediction of its sales, and that the recent increase in US revenue or the possibility of recession “did not affect the prediction of our sales volume”.
He added, “We will need to produce a high amount of hardware than the sale of 15 million units. Our first goal is to achieve the same launch we did with the Nintendo Switch, and we are working to strengthen our productive capacity so that we can respond to flexibility.”
Before returning to a high cost of console than the original switch, the Nintendo Switch 2 -hand -on -evements recognize positive feedback, saying, “Even if there is a speed around the launch, we know that this pace will not be easy to eliminate”.
“We are working to ramp up the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware production, since we organized Nintendo Switch 2 experience events and launch our Nintendo Store applications,” he said.
Nintendo also predicted that he sells 45 million units in Nintendo Switch 2 software, leaving it Mario Cart World Copies included in the switch 2 bundle, which will cross 52 million units of software sold for switch in 10 months after its launch.
It was said that a portion of the publishers was due to the “more strong lineup” of sports games and the availability of switch 2 editions.
Frokawa later said that Nintendo should confirm the impact of US taxes expected on sales predictions after the increase in the price of some of the accessories to Nintendo last month.
He explained, “Our financial estimates were created on the basis of 10 percent of US revenue assumptions on products in Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and cannot reveal the effects of tariffs on individual products on China, such as some of China’s accessories and amibo.
“Our basic policy is that for any country or region, if prices are implemented, we recognize them as part of the cost and add them to the price.” “On the other hand, the fiscal year ending March 2026 is the launch of our first newly dedicated video game system in eight years. If tariff assumptions change, we will consider how the hardware install will handle the situation in keeping with the importance of the platform and growth of the platform.”
Nintendo switch 2 globally launches June 5, 2025. UK pre -orders and US pre -orders are now alive.
