Well Nintendo is still doing great

Nintendo today published your financial statements for the nine month period ending December 31, 2019. Again, tThe company has released some truly astounding figures.

Net sales grew 37.3% year-over-year, while operating profit increased 98.2%, doubling last year’s results and reaching nearly $ 5 billion .

During the same period, Nintendo sold 24.1 million units of hardware, an increase of 35.8% year-over-year. Of that number, 16.77 million were Nintendo Switches, while 7.33 million were Switch Lite. In addition, Nintendo sold 176.1 million units of software during this period, an increase of 43% over last year.

The Nintendo Switch has now reached 79.87 million lifetime sales, surpassing the 75.94 million units of Nintendo 3DS.

The best selling games are Animal Crossing: New horizons to 19.41 million units, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in 8.64 million units, Super Mario 3D All-Stars to 8.32 million units, Yes Ring-shaped adventure to 5.95 million units. In total, Nintendo has sold 29 million games, twenty of which are Nintendo titles!

Digital sales also rose 104.9%, which makes sense for everyone at home due to the pandemic.

Last August, Kotaku reported that Nintendo’s profits had increased by 400%. The financial year ends on March 31, so expect more impressive numbers from Mario and his friends.