Nintendo reports 9M hardware units sold 13.74M, down 7.8% y-o-y

The company said, “Regarding the Nintendo Switch business during the nine months ended December 31, 2023, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the first entirely new installment in the side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. series in almost 11 years, saw a solid start with sales of 11.96 million units. Sales also grew for other new titles released this fiscal year, with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom selling 20.28 million units and Pikmin 4 selling 3.33 million units. In addition, the April release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie positively impacted sales of Mario related titles, such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which recorded sales of 6.79 million units. As a result of these factors, the total number of million-seller titles during this period was 24, including titles from other software publishers. Sales of Nintendo Switch continued to be steady in the seventh year since its launch, with hardware sales totaling 13.74 million units, a decrease of 7.8% year-on-year, and software sales totaling 163.95 million units, for the period.Turning to the digital business for our dedicated video game platform, downloadable versions of packaged software and add-on content for Nintendo Switch sold well, and sales related to Nintendo Switch Online also increased. Digital sales reached 346.4billion yen, up 11.7% year-on-year, helped also by the depreciation of the yen. In the mobile and IP related business, sales totaled 75.2 billion yen, bolstered mainly by the generation of revenue related to The Super Mario Bros. Movie during this term. The end result is that overall sales reached 1,394.7 billion yen, with sales outside Japan of 1,097.5 billion yen accounting for 78.7% of the total. Operating profit came to 464.4 billion yen, ordinary profit was 567.3 billion yen, and profit attributable to owners of parent totaled 408.0 billion yen.”