Nintendo’s Japanese website has released the company’s Six-Month Financial Results Briefing Q&A. This document features Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa answering key questions regarding the performance and demand for the Nintendo Switch’s family of systems.
Furuwaka states that the Nintendo Switch platform is continuing to grow: ”Nintendo Switch has seen cumulative sales exceeding 60 million units since launch and is just now entering the middle of its life cycle. We continue to see this as building a foundation for growth that goes beyond the life cycles of our previous hardware platforms.” Furukawa also delves in to the demand for Nintendo Switch consoles during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The president suggested that consumers were enticed by the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in March: ”Animal Crossing: New Horizons (released in March) continued to see a lot of attention and the recovery in hardware production meant that the the number of new consumers purchasing a Nintendo Switch increased.” The financial report goes into further details surrounding the high sales figures of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and talks about other titles released throughout the fiscal year.
Nintendo’s financial report Q&A also touches on Pokemon: Unite, and the company’s views on cross-platform titles. The full document talks about other aspects, and results in an interesting read. There’s no doubting the impact that the Switch has had during its life cycle, and it will surely continue to grow at a rapid rate.
The paragraph above that mentions Pokemon: Unite notifies the reader that Nintendo has an opinion (“…company’s views…”) on cross-platform titles. However, you didn’t share any insight on what Nintendo’s opinion was. Perhaps an additional sentence about how Nintendo actually felt about cross-platform titles would make this paragraph more complete? 🙂
