Nintendo sold 6.49 million Switch 2 consoles in the six months to 30 September, down 37.4% from a year earlier. The company has kept its full-year hardware target at 16.5 million, leaving the important holiday period to do a large share of the remaining work.

A Nintendo Switch 2 handheld console held against a plain wall. Photo: Masahiko OHKUBO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, modified.