Nintendo released its latest financial results and they are impressive. The company has now shifted a healthy 52.48 million Nintendo Switch consoles worldwide.
Great Christmas Period
Pokémon Sword and Shield were a huge hit over the holiday season, moving more than 16 million copies. That’s almost 4 million more than Super Smash Bros. Ultimate registered in its launch quarter a year ago, although Pokémon went on sale about three weeks earlier. Luigi’s Mansion 3 was another big success, selling over 5 million copies.
Nintendo’s Switch hardware sales are up about 15 percent year-on-year, which the company attributes partly to the launch of the cheaper Switch Lite while also noting the December launch in China — though that’s unlikely to be a major factor yet.
Breaking down the sales further, Nintendo says 5.19 million units of the dock-less Switch Lite were sold during this quarter, while the standard Switch accounted for the remaining 47.3 million units sold.
Nintendo predicts that it will sell a further 19.5 million Switch units in the twelve-months period, this is up by 1.5 million.
