Nintendo has blamed component shortages for a further slowing of Switch hardware sales, which have impacted the company’s overall sales and profit for the past financial quarter.
Switch game sales remain brisk, with more games sold to consumers year-on-year and a solid start for Nintendo Switch Sports (which has now notched up 4.84m copies).
Combined sales of all Nintendo Switch hardware models now stand at 111.08m units, just 7m short of Game Boy.
There’s no change to Nintendo’s admittedly rather conservative estimates for Nintendo Switch sales over the rest of the financial year, which will see the launch of games such as Bayonetta 3, Splatoon 3, Mario Rabbids 2, plus Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.