Nintendo is celebrating the end of a pretty good first year for the Nintendo Switch, with just over 15 million unit sales in the 12 months ending in March (on top of almost 3 million sales in the console’s launch month of March 2017). But Nintendo seems pretty sure that the system can perform even better in the coming fiscal year, and the company is projecting 20 million sales in the coming 12 months in a new annual report.
That target is actually a little below reports from last November, which suggested Nintendo would target annual sales of 25 million to 30 million Switch systems. Selling 20 million units in the coming year would put the Switch in the same sales range as the PS4 (which sold 17.7 million units in its second full year) but behind the sales mania of the Nintendo Wii, which sold 25.94 million units in its second full year.
The October launch of Super Mario Odyssey seems to be driving at least some of Nintendo’s hardware optimism. The game has already sold over 10.4 million units, outpacing Mario Kart 8 (9.22 million) and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (8.48 million) despite being on the market for a much shorter time. The fact that Mario Odyssey was included in a special holiday bundle with the Switch probably didn’t hurt that performance, either.
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