Nintendo Switch 2 sales fall 41% as cartridge maker Macronix exits
The gist
Nintendo sold 2.67 million Switch 2 units in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 41% year on year.
Price hikes and a cartridge-supply exit frame what to watch for the console.
How it unfolded
- Nov 4, 2026Macronix, the main producer of physical Nintendo cartridges, announced it is quitting the business, with no new ROM products and Q3 the last quarter it reports ROM sales separately.
- Nov 4, 2026Macronix said ROM fell to 5 percent of its sales from 26 percent a year earlier; its chairman said capacity is limited and is shifting to NOR and eMMC memory chips.
- Nov 5, 2026The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launched exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2 with overhauled visuals, voiced cutscenes and orchestral music.
Key terms
- ROM
- Non-volatile memory whose stored data cannot be electronically modified after manufacture.
- NOR
- A type of flash memory named after the NAND logic gate, used for non-volatile data storage.
Source: Wikipedia