Well that's just Prime.
The months of January, February, and March are usually slow for Nintendo, but it seems no one told the company that as they delivered 4 big titles in that period.
Of course, coming after the ‘Holiday’ quarter, the growth in hardware sales might seem a little smaller by comparison, but Nintendo has still sold quite well. Nintendo ended the financial year with 17.97m Nintendo Switch consoles sold, just shy of its 18m goal. This was a decline of 22.1% year on year as Nintendo says “shortages of semiconductors and other components impacted production until around the end of summer”. A lack of growth over the holidays compared to other years was also mentioned. Nintendo expects to sell only 15m Switch consoles this financial year showing that things are slowing down.
Software sales were down 9% year-on-year as well, but digital sales were up 12.7% for the same period.
Any results related to The Super Mario Bros. Movie weren’t mentioned.
New games released included Metroid Prime Remastered which topped a million, Fire Emblem Engage (1.6m), and Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe also did well (1.46m). The other title released this quarter was Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon but no figures were given for that.
Nintendo’s evergreen titles got a boost, Mario Party Superstars went over 10m old, and Splatoon 3 did as well. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet inch closer and closer to overtaking Pokemon Gold and Silver as well.
Nintendo Switch total: 125.62m (Up from 122.55m)
– Nintendo Switch: 94.8m (Up from 88.66m)
– Nintendo Switch Lite: 23.02m (Up from 20.40m)
– Nintendo Switch OLED Model: 22.71m (Up from 13.49m)
Last Quarter Additions
Pokémon
Mercs, Vectorman and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron.
It's Black, Back Again.
Makes sense to us.