That is gonna be bizarre to speak about in early August.
Nintendo launched their fiscal outcomes for the 2024-25 fiscal yr on the shut of enterprise in Japan right this moment, which would be the remaining outcomes launched earlier than the launch of the Change 2 in 4 weeks, and as could be anticipated it was a comparatively gradual quarter and yr for the Change’s eighth full fiscal yr.
All figures quoted in yen (¥), for comparability the US$ figures are listed based mostly on a price of ¥x = $1.
Full 12 months Outcomes
Income: ¥1,164.922bn (roughly $8.947bn), down 30.3% to 2023-24
Working earnings: ¥282.533bn (~$2.170bn), down 46.6%
Odd earnings (together with international trade positive factors): ¥372.316bn (~$2.86bn), down 45.3%
Digital gross sales: ¥326bn (~$2.503bn), down 26.5%
Cell/IP/different income: ¥67.6bn (~$518m), down 27%
4th Quarter Outcomes
Income: ¥208.704bn (~$1.44bn), down 24.68% to fiscal This autumn in 2024
Working earnings: ¥34.935bn (~$241m), down 45.86%
Odd earnings (together with international trade positive factors): ¥45.199bn (~$312m), down 60.05%
Digital gross sales: ¥80.2bn (~$668.6m), down 17.23%
Cell/IP/different income: ¥17.9bn (~$123.5m), up 2.29%
{Hardware} Shipments
1.26m Change 1 methods had been shipped within the fourth quarter, bringing the Change to a brand new lifetime complete of 152.12m methods – 1.9m away from passing the DS and seven.98m from the perfect obtainable quantity for the PlayStation 2 when it comes to “greatest promoting devoted sport {hardware} of all time”. The breakdown was 800k OLED, 260k normal, and 200k Lite fashions.
New Software program Outcomes
Of the quarter’s two releases, Donkey Kong Nation Returns HD shipped 1.27m copies in two and a half months of sale whereas Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Version (March 20) was not included within the million sellers checklist.
Catalogue Software program Outcomes
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has grown its lead once more as the perfect promoting Change sport, delivery 850k copies within the quarter for a brand new life up to now complete of 68.2m. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (410k copies in This autumn) has additionally jumped forward of Sword and Defend by 70,000 copies to grow to be the second greatest promoting Pokémon set ever, and the perfect promoting set that solely has two video games in it. The total high 10 might be discovered right here. Notably, Tremendous Mario Odyssey (LTD 29.28m copies, +240k) could be a part of the 30m cargo membership on Change someday within the 2025-26 fiscal yr, which might give the Change 5 video games to exceed that quantity, essentially the most on one system ever.
For the yr, software program gross sales had been 15.541m total from Nintendo. Tremendous Mario Get together Jamboree (7.48m copies) was the perfect promoting first celebration sport of the yr.
2025-26 Projections
Income: ¥1.9tn
Working earnings: ¥320bn
Odd earnings (together with international trade positive factors): ¥380bn
{Hardware} shipments: 15m Change 2 methods, 4.5m Change 1 methods
Software program shipments: 45m Change 2 video games, 105m Change 1 video games
Different Information
Nintendo is assuming for projections that US authorities tariffs launched final month will probably be in place for your complete fiscal yr and can modify their projections if circumstances change.