Nintendo's Quiet 2024 Led To 26% Drop In Physical Game Sales (UK)

And it's not getting much better.Nintendo had a pretty quiet year in 2024, all told. Sure, it launched some pretty significant games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but there was definitely a sense that the company was starting to wind things down ahead of its big Switch 2 reveal early in 2025.As such, Nintendo's performance in 2024 has been greatly attributed to a staggering drop of 26% in UK physical game sales. As highlighted by Chris Dring in his latest The Game Business podcast episode, physical game sales for the Switch dropped by 1.8 million in 2024. By contrast, PlayStation 5 physical sales dropped by 800,000, PlayStation 4 by 600,000, and Xbox by 300,000.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Apr 17, 2025 - 18:16

Nintendo's Quiet 2024 Led To 26% Drop In Physical Game Sales (UK)

And it's not getting much better.

Nintendo had a pretty quiet year in 2024, all told. Sure, it launched some pretty significant games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but there was definitely a sense that the company was starting to wind things down ahead of its big Switch 2 reveal early in 2025.

As such, Nintendo's performance in 2024 has been greatly attributed to a staggering drop of 26% in UK physical game sales. As highlighted by Chris Dring in his latest The Game Business podcast episode, physical game sales for the Switch dropped by 1.8 million in 2024. By contrast, PlayStation 5 physical sales dropped by 800,000, PlayStation 4 by 600,000, and Xbox by 300,000.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com