{
  "retrieved_at_utc": "2026-10-17",
  "definition": {
    "metric": "manufacturer-reported global hardware sell-in / shipments, millions of units, cumulative at fiscal year end March 31 where stated",
    "period": "Japanese fiscal year ending March 31",
    "rounding": "Nintendo reported cumulative totals retained to 0.01m; Sony unit sales retained to 0.1m; Sony cumulative values are arithmetic sums of annual shipments, rounded at source precision",
    "comparability": "Nintendo cumulative unit sales and Sony sell-in are distributor shipments; Sony explicitly labels hardware units sell-in. Nintendo IR describes sales-unit volumes and the explanatory material calls historical hardware sell-in."
  },
  "selected_series": [
    "Switch",
    "PS5"
  ],
  "native_cumulative_enabled": false,
  "cumulative_application": "CSV already cumulative; Nintendo direct cumulative except2026=sum; Sony annuals summed once",
  "zero_policy": "PS5 zeros2017–2020 are pre-launch, November2020 launch; no missing sales replaced byzero",
  "period": "31March2017–31March2026 annual snapshots; not calendar-year sales, not launch-age aligned",
  "excluded": "PS4 reporting ends2022; Xbox comparable primary series not available in this selection; Switch2 separate console excluded",
  "rounding_note": "Nintendo direct lifetime totals retained; annual rounded cells sum0.01m higher from2021. Sony cumulative sum annuals rounded0.1m; no second native cumulative sum.",
  "series": [
    {
      "id": "nintendo_switch",
      "console": "Nintendo Switch family (Switch, Lite and OLED)",
      "unit": "million_units",
      "measure": "reported cumulative hardware sell-in (FY2026 derived from prior reported cumulative plus reported annual shipments)",
      "observations": [
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2017-03-31",
          "cumulative": 2.74,
          "status": "reported annual; cumulative starts at launch fiscal year"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2018-03-31",
          "cumulative": 17.79,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2019-03-31",
          "cumulative": 34.74,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2020-03-31",
          "cumulative": 55.77,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2021-03-31",
          "cumulative": 84.59,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2022-03-31",
          "cumulative": 107.65,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2023-03-31",
          "cumulative": 125.62,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2024-03-31",
          "cumulative": 141.32,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2025-03-31",
          "cumulative": 152.12,
          "status": "cumulative from annual reported sell-in; precision subject to annual rounding"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2026-03-31",
          "cumulative": 155.92,
          "status": "direct life-to-date in source workbook; independently agrees with 152.12 + FY2026 3.80",
          "calculation": "152.12 cumulative at 2025-03-31 + 3.80 FY2026 reported Switch-family sell-in"
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2017 results: 2.74m Switch shipped through March end",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170428_2e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2018 results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2019 results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/190425e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2020 results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200507e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo CSR 2021: lifetime Switch hardware 84.59m at March 2021",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en-us/pdf/nintendo_csr2021e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2022 Switch sell-in results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2022/220510_7e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2023 results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2023/230509e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2024 results",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2025 results; 152.12m cumulative as of 2025-03-31",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/250508_4e.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Nintendo FY2026 results; 3.80m Switch hardware shipments in year",
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260508e.pdf"
        }
      ],
      "precision_note": "The workbook annual totals are rounded to 10,000 units. Their summed cumulative series is 0.01m higher than the familiar company lifetime values for FY2021-FY2026. The workbook direct life-to-date figure at March 31, 2026 is 155.92m, so this exact endpoint is used; annual cumulative values retain the published LT series at 0.01m precision and the CSV exposes the mechanical sums for comparison."
    },
    {
      "id": "playstation_5",
      "console": "PlayStation 5",
      "unit": "million_units",
      "measure": "cumulative_sell_in_calculated_from_reported_annual_shipments",
      "observations": [
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2020-03-31",
          "cumulative": 0,
          "status": "pre-launch; explicit zero"
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2021-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 7.8,
          "cumulative": 7.8
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2022-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 11.5,
          "cumulative": 19.3
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2023-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 19.1,
          "cumulative": 38.4
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2024-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 20.8,
          "cumulative": 59.2
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2025-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 18.5,
          "cumulative": 77.7
        },
        {
          "fiscal_year_ending": "2026-03-31",
          "annual_shipments": 16.0,
          "cumulative": 93.7
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2020 Q4 Supplemental: PS5 shipped 7.8m in FY2020",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/20q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2021 Q4 Supplemental: 11.5m; footnote says hardware sell-in",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/21q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2022 Q4 Supplemental: 19.1m; footnote says hardware sell-in",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/22q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2023 Q4 Supplemental: 20.8m",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/23q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2024 Q4 Supplemental: 18.5m",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/24q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2025 Q4 Supplemental: 16.0m; sell-in footnote; Q2/Q3 revised",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/25q4_supplement.pdf"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sony FY2025 earnings speech: cumulative PS5 units exceeded 93m at March 31, 2026",
          "url": "https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/25q4_sonyspeech.pdf"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
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      ],
      "license": "PD-self",
      "creator": "Evan-Amos"
    },
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      "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlayStation_5_logo_and_wordmark.svg",
      "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/PlayStation_5_logo_and_wordmark.svg",
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      "creator": "Sony Interactive Entertainment",
      "adaptation": "White background rectangle added; logo geometry unchanged"
    }
  },
  "visual_interpolation": "Annual snapshots; values between dates are visual interpolation, not additional published observations."
}