It commonly raises targets widely seen as conservative during the financial year. There was a smaller year-on-year decline in software sales and Nintendo raised its full year software forecast by 5% to 200 million units. Sales of the Switch device - now in its fifth year on the market - slumped by a third to 8.28 million units in the six months to end September from the same period a year earlier. Second-quarter operating profit tumbled 32% from the same period a year earlier to 100 billion yen ($880 million), but the gaming firm lifted its annual forecast 4% to 520 billion yen, helped by a weaker yen. "Currently there is no sign of improvement and the situation continues to be severe so I can't say how long it will continue," he said. "We can't produce enough to meet the demand we are expecting during the upcoming holiday season," Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa told a news briefing as the Kyoto-based company revised down its Switch sales target to 24 million units.
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