Kimishima: “20 million+ sales Nintendo Switch in 2018”

Kimishima: “20 million+ sales Nintendo Switch in 2018”

The president of Nintendo, Kimishima has told the Japanese Kyoto Shimbun that Nintendo aims for themselves to sell more then 20 million Nintendo Switch units in the fiscal year of 2018.

Thinking big Kimishima-san!

Fiscal year Nintendo Switch

The fiscal year for the Nintendo Switch runs from April 1st, 2018 to March 31st, 2019.  Note : this means 20 million in that specific period, regardless of the total number of sales.

Kimishima hopes to achieve this by coming up with new games that enable more play-styles. But they also ant to make more use of DLC to provide games with a longer lifespan. Something they so far did excellently with an example of Legend of Zelda – Breath of the Wild. If we take Super Mario Odyssey as a reference, it is still our view that should have come with DLC, or at least it should have been announced (Direct in January maybe ??)

Nintendo Switch launched on the 3rd of March 2017. At the time over ten million unit of Nintendo Switch have been sold. The forecast for the first fiscal year was estimated at 14 million.

If Nintendo’s new goal will be achieved, that means there are more than 34 million systems at the beginning of April 2019!

As a pure Nintendo oriented entity we can only wish Nintendo the best in achieving this!