Nintendo reportedly expects Switch sales to decline in its current fiscal year, due to ongoing shortages and disruption to logistics networks.
That’s according to a report byNikkei, which claims that the company expects to sell around 20 millionSwitchunits in its current FY, which represents a 10% decline from the previous year and a 30% decrease from FY 2020.
The number of Switches sold in fiscal 2021 is estimated at 23 million units, a 20% decline from the previous year when the console peaked at 28.83 million units.
Earlier this year,Nintendoblamed some of that decline on the global semiconductor shortage, as well as the previous year’sAnimal Crossing sales phenomenon.
According to Nikkei, the decline is despite strong demand globally for Switch, and Nintendo would reportedly like to increase production if supply issues could be resolved.
“But the prolonged chip shortage and global supply chain disruptions exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will impact production,” it claims.
In February, Nintendo Switch becamethe best-selling Nintendo home console of all-time, with 103.54 million units sold as of Jul 11, 2025, which eclipsed Wii’s 101.63 million.
Further reading
Switch still has significant ground to cover if it’s to become Nintendo’s all-time best-selling games hardware.Nintendo DSis the company’s best-selling hardware ever at 154.02 million units sold, ahead of Game Boy (and Game Boy Color) at 118.69m.
Outside of Nintendo’s own consoles, onlyPlayStation 4(116.6m) andPlayStation 2(155m) have outsold Nintendo Switch.
