Nintendo announced its financial results For its third financial quarter completed on December 31, sales of switch equipment reaching 4.82 million units, down 30.1% compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Obviously, we are starting to get a situation of Osborne here, where Nintendo has now announced its Switch 2 game console and Switch Sales will continue to decrease from here.
For the nine months closed on December 31, Nintendo sold 9.54 million switching hybrid consoles, down 30.6% compared to a year ago.
With regard to the Nintendo Switch activity in the nine months closed on December 31, 2024, sales of titles published during this exercise increased regularly, the legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (published in September) recording sales of 3.91 million units to date.
Super Mario Party Jamboree (published in October) sold 6.17 million units. In addition, Nintendo has seen stable sales in titles published until the end of the previous year, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling 5.38 million units (for cumulative sales of 67.35 million units) .
Following these factors, the total number of titles with a million sellers during this period reached 19, including titles from other software publishers. Equipment sales have totaled 9.54 million units (a decrease of 30.6% in annual shift) and software sales totaled 123.98 million units (a drop of 24.4% in annual shift ).
Sales of hardware and software decreased compared to the same period in the last year, when sales were considerably motivated by Zelda legend: Tears of the Kingdom (published in May 2023) and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (published in October 2023). Despite this, sales remained stable for a platform during its eighth year.
With regard to digital activity for the dedicated video game platform, digital sales totaled 245.8 billion yen, down 29.0% in annual sliding, mainly due to a decrease in sales Downloadable versions of Nintendo Switch packaged software.
In mobile activities linked to the IP, sales increased significantly during the same period of the last financial year, thanks to the high level of audience engagement with the film Super Mario Bros., which was Posted in April 2023. For this period, sales came to 49.7 billion yen, down 33.9% in annual sliding, due to a drop in income related to the film.
The final result is that overall sales have reached 956.2 billion yen, sales outside of Japan from 731.5 billion yen representing 76.5% of the total, and operating profit amounted to 247 , 5 billion yen. Interest income of 44.0 billion yen and other factors led to an ordinary profit of 327.1 billion yen and a profit attributable to the owners of parents of 237.1 billion yen.
Although sales of Nintendo Switch’s hardware and software during the third quarter were lower than expectations, Nintendo Switch continues to be appreciated by many people. In the future, we will continue to publish new offers, so even more consumers continue to play Nintendo Switch.
By looking at the software, Nintendo published Donkey Kong Country returns HD in January and plans to follow the release of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition in March. Other software publishers also plan to publish a wide variety of titles, and Nintendo will endeavor to invigorate the platform by continuously introducing new titles in addition to existing titles.
Nintendo revised the financial forecasts originally published on November 5, 2024, in consideration of the sales trend during the nine months enclosed on December 31, 2024, prospects for the rest of the exercise, as well as a reassessment of the Supposed exchange rate. Nintendo has also changed Nintendo Switch equipment and sales forecasts for software units for the exercise.
The Nintendo switch made its debut in 2017 and it generated more than 129 million current players, sales approaching 150 million units sold to date.
Nintendo recently showed the Switch 2 in a two -minute video, and it will start to show it in public demos in April.
