Nintendo delivered fewer Switch consoles in the past quarter, but more games

Nintendo shipped 1.88 million units of its Switch console in the quarter, down from the 1.97 million units in the same quarter a year earlier. Despite this, sales and profits increased due to good game sales.

The total number of Switch units delivered since its March 2017 release now stands at 19.67 million. This is evident from the quarterly figures that Nintendo has published. In the first quarter of this year, 2.92 million units of the Switch were delivered. These numbers are dwarfed by the 7.24 million copies in the last quarter of 2017, but that is a period when the holidays fall and therefore many products are always sold.

In the past quarter, Nintendo did good business with the game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: 1.4 million copies of the game were delivered, while the release was only in May and the quarter runs from April to June. Mario Tennis Aces fared even better; the game came out in June and has already shipped 1.38 million copies. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been shipped 1.13 million copies, totaling more than 10 million copies since its release in April last year. Nintendo delivered a total of just under 18 million software titles in the past three months, compared to more than 8 million in the same quarter in 2017.

Partly due to the good revenue from the sale of games, turnover increased by 9.1 percent to 168 billion yen, which is 1.28 billion euros. Compared to the same quarter in 2017, profit rose by 88 percent to 233 million euros.