As a part of its newest monetary earnings launch, Nintendo has confirmed that the Change has now bought a complete of 141.32 million models since its launch in 2017.
Digging in a bit deeper, the console managed to shift a complete of 15.70 million models throughout its three SKUs throughout FY2024. That is down by 12.6% in comparison with FY2023, throughout which it bought a complete of 17.97 milliion models.
Let’s have a look at how this breaks down throughout all three Change variants:
Whole Change gross sales throughout FY2024 – 15.70 million
Whole OG Change gross sales throughout FY2024 – 3.86 million
Whole Change – OLED Mannequin gross sales throughout FY2024 – 9.32 million
Whole Change Lite gross sales throughout FY2024 – 2.52 million
The query on everyone’s lips, then, is whether or not the Change will handle to surpass the DS and the PS2, which stand at 154.02 million and 155 million (160 million, Jim?!) respectively. Properly, Nintendo is at present forecasting gross sales of round 13.50 million for the Nintendo Change in FY2025 which, if taken actually, would put the Change at round 154.82 million.
So yeah, we predict the Change in all probability has it within the bag at this level – at the very least with the DS. Even when it would not handle the milestone in FY2025, we are able to simply foresee a near-future by which Nintendo continues to promote the Change alongside the eventual successor.
Here is a have a look at how the Change is at present faring towards Nintendo’s different main {hardware}:
| Console | Gross sales (tens of millions) |
|---|---|
| DS | 154.02 |
| Change | 141.32 |
| Recreation Boy | 118.69 |
| Wii | 101.63 |
| Recreation Boy Advance | 81.51 |
| 3DS | 75.94 |
| Household Laptop / NES | 61.91 |
| Tremendous Household Laptop / SNES | 49.10 |
| N64 | 32.93 |
| GameCube | 21.74 |
| Wii U | 13.56 |
After all, what is going to doubtless have an effect on Change gross sales going ahead is Nintendo’s public acknowledgement of the console’s successor. In a put up on X, President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the next-gen {hardware} can be introduced “this fiscal 12 months”, whereas confirming that no info can be shared throughout an upcoming Nintendo Direct in June.
