{"id":109593,"date":"2026-05-11T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/nintendo-stock-continues-to-dive-following-low-switch-2-sales-predictions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:23:58","slug":"nintendo-stock-continues-to-dive-following-low-switch-2-sales-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/nintendo-stock-continues-to-dive-following-low-switch-2-sales-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Stock Continues To Dive Following Low Switch 2 Sales Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1597\/15975876\/4692856-donkey-kong-bananza-screenshot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s share price dropped almost 8% on Monday as investors respond to the company&#8217;s overly pessimistic outlook for the Switch 2&#8217;s second year of sales. The slump took Nintendo&#8217;s share price to its lowest point in almost two years, after the company admitted it was feeling the squeeze from memory shortages and other market pressures.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-reached-new-sales-heights-in-the-us-in-2025\/1100-6537566\/\">sales numbers alone<\/a> the Switch 2 looks like a runaway success, but Nintendo isn&#8217;t confident that the console can maintain its momentum, especially with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-officially-getting-a-price-hike-in-september\/1100-6539854\/\">price hike on the way<\/a>. In its earnings release, Nintendo said that hardware shortages and the strong first-year sales would result in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/why-nintendo-expects-fewer-second-year-switch-2-hardware-sales\/1100-6539861\/\">Switch 2 sales declining<\/a> in its second year&#8211;which would be unusual as consoles are generally expected to gain momentum in their second year on the market.<\/p>\n<p>As Nintendo stock continues its downward slide, Sony is up 10% following an earnings release that showed a drop in sales but a rise in profit. While Sony&#8217;s hardware sales are also feeling the impact of memory shortages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-just-reported-a-new-record-breaking-high-figure-but-its-unsurprising\/1100-6539856\/\">strong digital sales<\/a> are carrying the company&#8217;s gaming segment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-stock-continues-to-dive-following-low-switch-2-sales-predictions\/1100-6539871\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\/\">Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-stock-continues-to-dive-following-low-switch-2-sales-predictions\/1100-6539871\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s share price dropped almost 8% on Monday as investors respond to the company&#8217;s overly pessimistic outlook for the Switch 2&#8217;s second year of sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}