Nintendo Switch hardware sales fell 21.7 percent.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TOKYO — Nintendo has released its earnings for the April-June quarter. While the numbers are typically strong for a typically slow period, revenue and profit are both down compared to last year.
Reported from The Verge, Thursday (5/8), as a comparison of hardware sales Nintendo The Switch fell 21.7 percent to 4.45 million units. Software sales fell 10.2 percent to 45.29 million units.
Nintendo has now sold a total of 89.04 million Switch consoles by comparison, PlayStations 5 (PS5) just hit 10 million. Revenue fell 9.9 percent to 322.6 billion yen, or 2.94 billion U.S. dollars, while operating profit was 119.6 billion yen, or 1.09 billion U.S. dollars, a 17.3 percent decline. year-on-year or from year to year.
Unlike last year, when Nintendo sold more than 10 million copies Animal Crossing to almost double the figure from the previous quarter, no title Switch blockbuster reliable. Pokemon Snap only sold 2.07 million copies outside of Japan (the game is published by The Pokemon Company in its home market) and Mario Golf: Super Rush sold 1.34 million.
Nintendo’s biggest release this quarter is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD which came out last month. The company can expect an increase in Switch hardware sales in the next quarter due to the launch of the new OLED model in October, although that doesn’t bring the widely expected power boost.
Nintendo’s list of games for the all-important holiday quarter includes Metroid Dread, WarioWare: Gate It Together, Mario Party Superstars and remake Pokemon Diamond dan Pearl.
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