Gaming
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sells 8.81 million units
Switch 2 hardware sales fell 37.4% year on year, while Nintendo still expects to sell 16.5 million units by the end of FY2027.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream sold 8.81 million units in Nintendo’s first half of FY2027 even as hardware sales fell 37.4% year on year. Eurogamer and Kotaku report the sales total.
Nintendo sold 6.49 million Switch 2 units and 1.27 million Nintendo Switch units. Hardware sales declined on both systems: 37.4% for Switch 2 and 32.7% for Nintendo Switch. The newer console’s drop was steeper, but the older system was not spared.
Software moved in the opposite direction. Switch 2 software sales rose 18.8% year on year to 24.49 million units, while Nintendo Switch software sales increased 6.8%. Rhythm Heaven Groove sold 2.89 million units during the six-month period.
The report does not include software sales for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, so Nintendo’s reported software totals leave that game’s contribution out of the picture. That is a notable gap alongside the strong sales for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, though the available figures do not show how the remake performed.
Nintendo still expects to sell 16.5 million Switch 2 units by the end of FY2027, leaving its full-year target in place despite the decline.