Nintendo doesn’t want you to share your Switch, even with your kids

In accordance with Nintendo’s 2024 monetary outcomes report, the family-oriented gaming big isn’t content material with having only one Nintendo Swap system in each family. By the top of this coming monetary 12 months, the corporate needs “a number of in each residence, and even one for each individual.”

This morning was full of huge updates from Nintendo because the world-renowned firm launched its monetary report for the earlier fiscal 12 months whereas additionally delivering a Nintendo Swap 2 reveal in probably the most informal manner potential – by means of a tweet. Regardless of the ever-growing anticipation across the Nintendo Swap 2 and the unique hybrid console releasing eight years in the past, the corporate bought a whopping 15.7 million items in 2023/24 throughout the unique Swap, Swap Lite, and OLED fashions.

Regardless of decreases in each {hardware} and software program gross sales final 12 months, Nintendo’s massive releases nonetheless carried out exceptionally effectively. Tears of the Kingdom surpassed 20 million gross sales, Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise earned 13.44 million, and the newest Pikmin title bought almost 3.5 million copies. Contemplating we gave all three releases a ten/10, we’re not shocked that they bought so effectively.

These three video games are only a few of the 31 Swap titles, each from Nintendo and third-party publishers, to promote over a million copies this 12 months. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe additionally joined the a million membership, probably because of the launch of its ultimate DLC wave, and the success of April 2023’s The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film. With the remainder of 2024 trying pretty quiet for Nintendo’s first-party titles, it’s reassuring to see that the Swap’s again catalog is protecting it alive.

These are the highlights from Nintendo’s 2024 monetary report. When you’re interested in any of the 12 months’s smash-hit releases, be sure you try our Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom assessment, Pikmin 4 assessment, and Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise assessment subsequent.