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Catherine Lewis

Switch sales slump as Nintendo attributes the drop to a lack of "special" driving factors and the console's age, but don't worry, its successor will still be announced soon

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The Nintendo Switch is in a bit of a sales slump according to Nintendo's latest financial results, but the company has been quick to remind everyone that, to be fair, the console is now almost eight years old.

Nintendo's latest financial report for the six-month period up to September 30, 2024 shows that the Switch isn't selling nearly as much as it once was. Year-on-year, sales for the full family of systems (including the OLED and Lite models) are down by 31%, coming in at 4.72 million units. As you'd expect based on that, year-on-year software sales are down, too – dropping by 27.6% to 70.28 million units. 

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