Nintendo Switch sales exceeded 52 million units, finally surpassing NES


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Andrew Mantarro

Nintendo reports results for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020 (April to December 2019). In the same period, sales have been increasing year by year since the third quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, and finally reached over 1 trillion yen. It is clear that the driving force of these good results is the Nintendo Switch released in 2017, and when combined with the Nintendo Switch Lite specialized in mobile mode, the sales volume finally exceeded 52 million units . This figure exceeds the sales of Super Nintendo (49.1 million units).

Nintendo Co., Ltd. Third Quarter of Fiscal Year Ending March 2020 Reference Material
(PDF) https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200130_3.pdf

Nintendo Switch sales pass 52 million, Pokemon Sword / Shield sell 16M-Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/30/21115047/nintendo-switch-sales-pokemon-sword-shield-2020

Nintendo's sales for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020 (April-December 2019) are ¥ 1,22,668 million, gross profit is ¥ 565,778 million, and the gross profit margin is 45.6% is recorded. Non-consolidated net sales for the third quarter of 2020 (October to December) were 587,701 million yen and gross profit was 25,986 million yen (gross profit margin: 43.7%).

Overseas sales ratio was 77.8% in Q3 FY03 / 2020 and 78.6% in Q3 2020. Game consoles, including accessories, accounted for 55.6% of total sales in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020, and 57.4% in the third quarter of 2020 alone. Game software sold by Nintendo accounted for 82% of total sales in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, and 87.4% in the third quarter of 2020 alone.


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Dennis Eichler

In addition, `` Digital sales '', which summarizes sales of packaged download software, download-only software, additional contents, Nintendo Switch Online, etc., is 124.9 billion yen in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020, For the quarter alone, 53.2 billion yen. The ratio of digital sales to total game software sales is 28.6% in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2020 and 22.3% in the third quarter of 2020 alone. In addition, the ratio of download software sold as a package to digital sales accounted for 65.6% in the first nine months of the fiscal year ending March 2020, and 71.7% for the third quarter of 2020 alone.

Among the Nintendo titles, 'Pokémon Sword Shield' sold the most software. It became a hot topic that sales of 6 million units were achieved in the first week of release, but it is clear that a total of 16.06 million units were sold worldwide including the period until the end of December 2020. The number of units sold in Japan is 4.21 million, and the number sold overseas is 11.85 million units.

Other titles that sold more than 1 million units from April 2019 to the end of December 2019 are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (6.72 million units), Luigi Mansion 3 (53.7 million units), and Super Mario Maker 2 ( (5.04 million) `` The Legend of Zelda Dreaming Island '' (4.19 million) `` Super Brawl Smash Brothers SPECIAL '' (3.87 million) `` The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild '' (3.56 million) `` Super Mario Party '' ( (2.72 million) `` Fire Emblem Fukahana Setsugetsu '' (2.58 million) `` New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe '' (2.54 million) `` Ring Fit Adventure '' (2.17 million) `` Super Mario Odyssey '' (2.15 million) `` Pocket Monster Let's Go! Pikachu Eevee '(1.13 million),' Splatoon 2 '(1.1 million),' ASTRAL CHAIN '(1.03 million),' MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 3: The Black Order '(15 million titles).



Since the cumulative sales of the Nintendo Switch exceeded 52 million, it surpassed the Super Nintendo (49.1 million) and reached about half of Wii (110.63 million).

Analyst Daniel Ahmad graphs and releases the cumulative shipments of stationary game machines, and Nintendo Switch expands shipments at the same pace as game machines that sold more than 100 million units such as Wii, PS2, PS4 You can see that According to Ahmad, 'We estimate that the Nintendo Switch may have surpassed Xbox One in shipments during the quarter, including the 2019 holiday season. Although Xbox One is not slow, 74 the approximate number shipped in the month Nintendo Switch is both 'was shipped in just 34 months tweets have been.



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