Switch sales slump as Nintendo attributes the drop to a lack of "special" driving factors and the console's age, but don't worry, its successor will still be announced soon
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The Nintendo Switch is in a bit of a sales slump according to Nintendo’s latest financial results, but the company has been quick to remind everyone that, to be fair, the console is now almost eight years old.
However, Nintendo has suggested plenty of reasons why this might be the case. For a start, the same period of the last fiscal year saw a huge boost in sales thanks to bothThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom(which also got its own special edition OLED console) as well as The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which “energized our dedicated video game platform business,” the company explains. However, the first half of this fiscal year didn’t have any “special factors” to drive sales in the same way, and perhaps more importantly, “with Nintendo Switch now in its eighth year since launch, unit sales of both hardware and software decreased significantly year-on-year.”
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