Nintendo: Most of the revenue from games continues to come from physical sales – Gaming – News

More than half of Nintendo’s game revenue continues to come from physical game sales. This is evident from the company’s quarterly figures. Physical sales of games were briefly lowered last year due to the corona lockdowns, but have since increased again.

Nintendo made about 57 percent of its revenue from games in the past quarter from physical sales, according to figures derived from material that Nintendo has put online in the presentation of the quarterly figures. That percentage was 53 and 50 percent in previous quarters. At the time of the first lockdowns due to the coronavirus, 44 percent of sales came from physical sales. Before that it was 77 percent.

The share of digital-only software, including the Switch Online subscription, rose from 12 percent a few years ago to 22 percent now. The digital variants in the Nintendo e-Shop of games that are also available physically, generated 21 percent of the turnover.

The supply of Switch consoles decreased last quarter and stood at 3.8 million. With that, Nintendo has sold approximately 92 million units of the console since its release. The most sold game of the past six months was The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD with 3.6 million copies. The older Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 3.34 million copies, Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.2 million copies. New Pokémon Snap also reached 2.2 million times.

The Switch itself was sold 3.14 million times, the Switch Lite 680,000 times. The Switch OLED is not included in the quarterly figures, because it was only released in October. Nintendo expects to be able to supply fewer Switch consoles due to the chip shortage. In the period up to March next year, Nintendo expects to sell about 11.5 million units of the Switch, Switch OLED and Switch Lite. That expectation was 13 million copies.

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