Nintendo has released its financials for the nine-month period ending December 31, 2019. As expected, the company has done exceedingly well in its continued success with Nintendo Switch console and games sales, among other financial factors.
Overall net sales were up 37.3% year-on-year, wherein Nintendo sold 24.1 million hardware units, a 35.8% increase year-on-year: 16.77 million were the Nintendo Switch, and 7.33 million were the Switch Lite. Also, Nintendo sold 176.1 million units of software during this period, a 43.0% increase year-on-year.
With this, the Nintendo Switch has now reached 79.87 million lifetime sales, surpassing the Nintendo 3DS’s 75.94 million units. Also, with 11.57 million units sold last quarter, Nintendo Switch sold more units last quarter than the Wii has ever achieved in its quarterly sales.
With digital sales up 104.9% year-on-year, Nintendo recognized that “sales were strong for downloadable versions of packaged software for Nintendo Switch.” Nintendo has had 29 million-selling games. Notably, “there were 29 titles which sold over one million units for this fiscal year, including titles from other software publishers.”
The biggest selling games for this reporting period are:
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons at 19.41 million units
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 8.64 million units
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars at 8.32 million units
- Ring Fit Adventure at 5.95 million units
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 4.04 million units
Also worth mentioning, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was 11th on the list, with 2.84 million units sold. It is noted that the game is sold “in markets outside of Japan, so it is counted in the sell-through for North America and Europe. (It is sold in Japan by KOEI TECMO GAMES).”
Here is a full summary of the released financials:
- Net Sales in
- Q1 – 358,106 million yen
- Q2 – 411,418 million yen
- Q3 – 634,939 million yen
- Total – 1,404,463 billion yen
- Operating Income in
- Q1 – 144,737 million yen
- Q2 – 146,687 million yen
- Q3 – 229,684 million yen
- Total – 521,108 million yen
- Net Profit in
- Q1 – 106,482 million yen
- Q2 – 106,641 million yen
- Q3 – 163,542 million yen
- Total – 376,665 million yen
- Nintendo Switch units as
- Hardware total – 78.87 million
- Software total – 532.34 million
- Hardware forecast – 26.5 million
- Software forecast – 205 million
- Nintendo Switch sales in
- Q1 – 3.05 million yen
- Q2 – 5.31 million yen
- Q3 – 8.41 million yen
- Total – 16.77 million yen
- Nintendo Switch Lite sales in
- Q1 – 2.62 million yen
- Q2 – 1.55 million yen
- Q3 – 3.16 million yen
- Total – 7.33 million yen
- Smart devices, IP related income, etc. in
- Q1 – 13.278 million yen
- Q2 – 13.449 million yen
- Q3 – 15.284 million yen
- Total – 42,011 million yen
