It’s Nintendo Financials Day—time to test in on how Nintendo, the Swap, and its video games are performing. This report covers Q2, from July to September, and contains updates on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Membership, and Nintendo World Championships: NES Version.
Nintendo Swap gross sales fell 31.0% year-on-year, with 4.72 million items bought this quarter. Though recreation gross sales have additionally declined, the next proportion of digital gross sales has led to an improved revenue margin. Nevertheless, this enhance has been partially offset by greater gross sales of the OLED mannequin, which has a decrease revenue margin. Due to the Nintendo Swap Lite: Hyrule Version, console gross sales in Q2 had been additionally greater than in Q1.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge was the one title to surpass a million items bought this quarter, with 2.58 million items. We didn’t anticipate Emio or Nintendo World Championships to succeed in that milestone, and with out hitting one million, gross sales figures for these titles gained’t be disclosed.
Nintendo has revised its forecast for the fiscal yr ending March 2025, decreasing its outlook on gross sales and revenue. It has additionally lowered its projected Swap console gross sales by a million items to 12.5 million items, and anticipates a lower in software program gross sales.
There was no point out of a successor to the Nintendo Swap on this report.
Swap {Hardware}
Nintendo Swap complete: 146.04m (Up from 143.42m)
– Nintendo Swap: 730,000 this quarter
– Nintendo Swap Lite: 640,000 this quarter
– Nintendo Swap OLED Mannequin: 1.25m this quarter
Swap Software program Million Sellers Updates
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge – 2.58m
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Version – Not reported
- Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Membership – Not reported
Nintendo additionally gave updates on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which bought 2.31 million items within the quarter. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Yr Door moved a further 180,000 copies bringing it to 1.94m and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD moved an extra 380,000 copies bringing it to 1.57m within the quarter.
Nintendo World Championships and Emio not reporting means they bought below 1 million copies.
Evergreen Million Sellers
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 64.27m (up from 62.90m)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 46.45m (up from 45.85m)
- Tremendous Smash Bros. Final – 34.14m (up from 34.66m)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 32.29m (up from 32.05m)
- Tremendous Mario Odyssey – 28.50m (up from 28.21m)
- Pokémon Sword and Protect – 26.44m (up from 26.35m)
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet – 25.69m (up from 25.29m)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 21.04m (up from 20.80m)
Tremendous Mario Social gathering – 20.98m (up from 20.84m) - New Tremendous Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 17.77m (up from 17.61m)
We’ve acquired no new determine for Tremendous Mario Bros. Marvel.