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Nintendo's latest financial earnings report is here, revealing healthy software sales thanks to the enormously popular Tomodachi Life : Living the Dream. Sales of Switch 2 hardware, however, are down.

As per Nintendo's 2nd Quarter fiscal earnings report , focusing on the three-month period ending 30th September 2026, Switch 2 hardware registered a big drop in sales during the first half of the current financial year (FY27).

Over that period, Nintendo sold 6.49m Switch 2 units and 1.27m units of the original Switch - equating to a 37.4 percent decline for Switch 2 and 32.7 percent decline for Switch 1 compared to the same period last year. Nintendo had previously forecast a decline in hardware sales, and the company still expects to sell 16.50m Switch 2 units by the end of the current fiscal year.

Nintendo software sales, on the other hand, saw a big year-on-year boost of 18.8 percent on Switch 2 (to 24.49m units) and a smaller increase of 6.8 percent on Switch 1.…