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Nintendo’s squeezing one last holiday out of the Switch as sales plunge

Sales are getting blue-shelled without a fresh console.

11/5/24 1:33PM

The Nintendo Switch, heading into its eighth holiday season, is selling like whatever the opposite of hot cakes are. The console’s sales fell 31% from last year in the video-game-maker’s latest report.

Nintendo said its net profit over the past six months sank 60% from last year. It also slashed its Switch sales expectations and now expects to sell 12.5 million of the consoles by the end of March — 1 million less than it previously estimated. Nintendo’s revenue slumped 17% from last year and its net profit dropped 69%.

Slowing sales will probably throw a wrench in the Japanese game-maker’s lofty goal of selling a Switch to every individual (not just every household). As of September, it’s sold 146 million Switches since its 2017 debut — good enough to be the third-best-selling console of all time (behind Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s own DS).

Despite all of this, Nintendo is still not planning on announcing the Switch 2 earlier than it’s already said it will: at some point before or around the end of March 2025. One analyst told Reuters that making an announcement in the middle of the critical holiday shopping season could cause problems for the Mario maker.

Still, the lack of announcement is becoming a bit confounding for a company that first said its Switch 2 announcement was on the way back in May.

Since that time, Nintendo has released an alarm clock and a music app. Other non-Switch 2 revenue streams include future films based on Mario and “The Legend of Zelda,” and the planned 2025 opening of Orlando’s Super Nintendo World within a new area at the Universal theme park.

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In less than three weeks, Disney’s “Zootopia 2” becomes the second billion-dollar film of 2025

The global film industry officially has its second billion-dollar film of the year, as Disney’s “Zootopia 2” surged past the $1 billion box office mark in just 17 days. The other billion-dollar film this year, the live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” was also made by Disney.

“Zootopia” was the fastest to reach 10 figures of any animated film. The animated hit, which had the highest-grossing global debut of the year over Thanksgiving weekend, has benefited from massive numbers in China.

Disney also logged two billion-dollar films last year with “Inside Out 2” and “Moana 2.” (The latter also came out over the Thanksgiving holiday.) The only other film to cross the mark in 2024 was “Deadpool and Wolverine,” which featured Disney’s IP.

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Would a social media ban see chronically online teens turn to AI chatbots?

As Australia enacts a world-first ban, a survey finds more US teens are using social media — and chatbots — daily.

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Only six of the top 20 songs of 2025 so far are from this year

Most of the biggest songs of 2025 aren’t from 2025.

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Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was the top English-language article on the site in 2025

The day after his assassination in September, Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was viewed over 170 times per second, or almost 15 million times, according to figures from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Like with most other years, the top entries of the year reflected the fact that millions flock to the platform to learn more about political figures, films, and fatalities.

Though there’s been much talk about the impact of AI-generated search summaries and chatbots on Wikipedia — not least from the platform itself — it’s still clearly a major go-to resource for anyone looking to learn a little about a lot online, especially if this week’s year-end figures are anything to go by.